ICSI and IVF are safe results from worlds largest, longest running study
Madrid, Spain: The world's largest and longest running study comparing children conceived through IVF and ICSI with children conceived normally has confirmed that both assisted reproductive techniques are safe and that children conceived through these two techniques are healthy and, in general, doing as well as children conceived by natural means.... ...The study did find a moderately higher rat...Smoking decreases men's chances of fatherhood by IVF and ICSI
Vienna, Austria: Men who smoke reduce their chances of successfully fathering a child by either standard IVF techniques or by ICSI, according to research carried out in Germany....... Dr Michael Zitzmann told the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology annual conference in Vienna that smoking altered the DNA of sperm and he believed this hampered the development of the embryo.........Vienna, Austria: The absolute risk of having a baby with a serious congenital malformation or chromosomal abnormality as a result of using ICSI* is small, Dr Ulla-Britt Wennerholm told a news briefing today (Monday 1 July) at the annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Vienna....... "Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) has made conception possible for...Study allays fears about the physical and psychological development of ICSI children
Lausanne, Switzerland: Children born with the help of intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) appear to be developing normally, despite earlier concerns about their physical and psychological development, according to American researchers.... ...Dr Gianpiero Palermo, from the Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility at Cornell University, USA, told the European Society of Human Reproduct...... ... ... ... ... Fears that the controversial fertility treatment known as ICSI could cause a high level of abnormalities among babies are largely unfounded, according to major new research by Swedish fertility experts, published today (Wednesday 29 March) in the journal Human Reproduction.*... ... A study of over a thousand babies born after ICSI did show that there was an increased risk...