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The number of Australian women turning to egg donors to fulfil their dream of motherhood is on the rise. As women favour careers over babies or don’t meet Mr Right until later in life they turn to IVF in the hope of achieving pregnancy. However, the reality is, the chance of conception after the age [...]

Seeing celebrities like Julian Moore and Halle Berry getting pregnant in their 40's, it ist easy to imagine it's not that difficult. But, as Cindy Lever from Australia discovered, the reality can be very different. She shares her story, in the September 2016 edition of the leading Australian magazine "Good Health" and talks about her [...]

Scientists have discovered that infertile women who are forced to use donor eggs do still pass their own DNA to their child. It has been hailed as 'an amazing discovery' by Nick Macklon, professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Southampton. It was previously believed that the fertilised egg used to make the [...]

Miriana, UK, 08. May 2015 "I really cannot praise this clinic enough" Were you pleased with the treatment? From the first contact Dr Kanakas' enthusiasm and genuine love for what he does shone out. He took the time to understand me as a person and not just a potential patient. I have had many problems [...]

According to the Australian newspaper, The Age, Australian women in their late 40s and 50s are travelling to Greece and Spain in order to get pregnant. They choose Greece as they pay 7,600 dollars for a donated egg and in vitro fertilisation (IVF) procedure, one-third of the price a similar procedure costs in Australia, where [...]

Occupational therapist Suzy Heeks always dreamed of having children but as she approached 40 and was in a relationship with a man who did not share the same dream, she realised she would need to go it alone. Ms Heeks used an Australian sperm donor and went through IVF to have her daughter, Abigail, 5. [...]

Today there are thousands of women who, for many different reasons need donated eggs in order to conceive. The egg donation is an anonymous procedure in which the donor provides oocytes to the receiving couple. Donated eggs from volunteers are fertilized with sperm from the recipients’ partner. After fertilization, the resulting embryos are transferred to [...]

Pictures of the opening ceremony.