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Reproductive medicine witnesses a paradigm shift

April 30, 2013
Thousands of men and women in India are now resorting to fertility treatment to become parents. Figures by the World Health Organisation (WHO) reveal that approximately 13-19 million couples in India are infertile. In every 100 …

Coming soon via IVF – a child with three parents!

September 18, 2012
Imagine a child with three parents! That’s what is on the cards with a new IVF method which would give rise to an offspring with genes from a mother, a father and a female donor. The treatment which is still at a research stage …

Hope floats for childless couple in city of lakes

August 23, 2012
A medical center in Udaipur is all set to provide assistance to childless couple.  As thousands of tourists arrive here this September, the start of the tourist season, so will Rajan and Parul. But this couple from Delhi will …

Fertility treatments – how safe are they?

November 19, 2012
When an Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao have a child via in-vitro fertilization or a Bollywood movie like Vicky Donor centres on sperm donation, people sit up and notice it. Having offspring is seen as the natural way of life and …