Fertility Medicine

Remembering Robert Edwards, the pioneer of IVF

14 Apr 2013

The sentiment that "the most important thing in life is having a child" is universal. This Sunday, the first family day after his death, we will attribute it to someone on record as having said it...

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New techniques in IVF

13 Nov 2012

Henry and Patsy had been trying for a baby for almost a decade without success; every month brought renewed disappointment.

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Family planning

3 Jul 2012

Miss Chan, who has a daughter, did not want to leave anything to chance when she decided to have another child a year ago. For a foolproof way to conceive a boy, she turned to a local consultancy...

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IVF: in sickness and in wealth

16 Oct 2011

More single women are choosing to harvest their eggs and have them frozen for future use by licensed in vitro fertilisation (IVF) clinics before they undergo medical treatment such as chemotherapy...

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Hope for couples battling infertility

26 Aug 2011

A discovery by Hong Kong scientists may open up approaches to treating infertility and creating a new form of contraception.

Researchers at the University of Hong Kong have...

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Calls for more penalties after embryo mix-up

19 Jul 2011

An embryo mix-up by a reproductive treatment centre has spurred calls for more penalties for clinics or hospitals in breach of the rules.

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Opinion

Tom Holland

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

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Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

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Outrage online at mix-up of embryos

The transfer of two embryos by mistake into the wrong woman at a reproductive treatment centre is unforgivable, say clients of the centre.

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Paid surrogate birth unethical, church reiterates

The Catholic Church weighed in again yesterday on the case of Henderson Land Development vice-chairman Peter Lee Ka-kit, who reportedly used a commercial surrogate to deliver three triplet...

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Mums see double as more twins born in city

More Hong Kong mothers are seeing double these days, with a big jump in the number of twins born.

Twin births have increased by more than 70 per cent since 1996, the latest figures...

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Quotes of the Week

In a February 15, 2010, article, Mr Bowring nonetheless included these two men in a list of Asian political dynasties, which may have been understood by readers to infer that the younger Mr Lee...

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Long-distance call

London-based Dr Xiao-Ping Zhai is famous for making babies with herbs and twigs.

'That's just a joke by some of the British media,' she laughs, 'I use herbs but not twigs. I don't...

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Test-tube boy a stand-out success

Luo Youqun is a young man with regular features, one of hundreds you might meet on any street in Hunan province on any given day. If you passed him, you might well think he was just another...

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