What is World AIDS Day?

On the first of December each year, the world commemorates World AIDS Day. It provides an opportunity for people around the globe to remember those who have died of AIDS-related illnesses. We want also to show our support and solidarity with people who are living with HIV. Every year AIDS day focuses on a special...

IVI Achieves Important Advances in the Safety and Success of Assisted Reproduction

IVI finds that the use of slush nitrogen at -210o in embryo vitrification could increase embryo survival compared to the current technique Non-invasive preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy is the starting point to continue to seek an improvement in results, and can become a useful diagnostic tool This important safety research is being presented at...

IVI opens its clinics: Find out what the return will be like

  Measuring the temperature before entering the clinic, providing masks and marking safety distances in the clinic are some of the safety measures taken in our assisted reproduction clinics All our laboratories are prepared to work with type 2 infectious agents, such as SARS-CoV-2 so there is no risk in this area. Many of you...

Coronavirus and Assisted Reproduction: Next steps

We continue to fight the spread of COVID-19 as we know best: with good judgement, common sense and always prioritizing the health and safety of our patients and society in general. And a fundamental factor in achieving this is information, the key to defining the best way to act and respond to the uncertainty that...

COVID-19: Coronavirus and pregnancy

Dr. Antonio Requena, general medical director of IVI, appeals for calm at the evolution of the coronavirus. The Lancet magazine published the first study between coronavirus and pregnancy: there is no evidence of mother-child infection. The spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) has generated a global social alert for different population groups, arousing in pregnant women...

Similar birth weight between babies born via AR and by natural conception

The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that every year more than 20 million babies are born weighing less than 2,500 grams, many of them coming into the world in developing countries. For many years it was believed that reproductive treatments were related to low birth weight babies, but a recent study carried out at IVI...