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UK ![[:en]IVI and Mumbai Smiles united for children’s health](https://ivi-fertility.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/mumbai-smiles--255x169.jpg)
Donated eggs are used in 35% of assisted reproduction treatments in IVI clinics. Sperm donation is often used in cases of male infertility or when there is no male partner. Our aim at IVI is to ensure that assisted reproduction treatments mirror natural reproduction as closely as possible. And that means that compatibility between donors… View Article
With Fathers’ Day approaching Doctor Pacheco, Andrology Laboratory Director at IVI Madrid, answers your questions about the peculiarities of male fertility. Why can’t I become a father? Even though it is difficult to attribute a percentage of infertility cases to a member of a couple, it is normally considered that 40% relate to male problems,… View Article
![[:en]World No Tobacco Day (31 May)](https://ivi-fertility.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/05/ThinkstockPhotos-176952350-baja1-255x169.jpg)
Today, 31 May, the World Health Organisation is celebrating World No Tobacco Day to raise awareness of the damage caused by tobacco to human health. The WHO estimates that 22% of the world’s population over the age of 15 is a smoker and that, as a result of this habit, over 6 million people die… View Article
Women are continuing to postpone motherhood to later and later in life. This is the among the findings of a retrospective study by IVI analysing the evolution of patients during the last ten years and patients’ tendency to put off having children to a later age, which had risen to 40 by 2013. The study,… View Article
The terms sterility and infertility tend to be used interchangeably. However, although they are closely related, there are some differences in their meaning. Dr Ernesto Bosch, Medical Director at IVI Valencia, cleared up the difference for us. When talking about couples: Sterility is when a couple, the woman being younger than 35, has been trying… View Article
“Embryoscope is a time-lapse embryo incubator that provides a record in pictures and videos of your future baby from its biological beginnings.” Until fairly recently, one could only imagine how an embryo evolved during its first days. The rate of cell division was guesswork and traditional incubators were unable to display other variables apart from the… View Article
![[:en]He manchado ¿Qué hago?](https://ivi-fertility.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/07/He-manchado8-255x169.jpg)
As a woman gets older, her eggs start to lose quality and it becomes more difficult to fall pregnant. Despite being in the prime of life, nature may not reflect the same. Egg donation therefore plays a major role from the age of 40 onwards, and is an important alternative whenever there is a fertility… View Article
![[:en]"If I had known about the vitrification of oocytes treatment, I would have had my eggs frozen years ago without hesitation"](https://ivi-fertility.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/Noelia-Rodriguez3-255x169.jpg)
Noelia Rodríguez, 40. Lawyer “10 years ago I decided to embark on my professional career and set up my own legal practice. It’s clear to me that I wasn’t going to have a child before 35, an age at which experts state that a woman’s fertility begins to decline. For me, at that time my… View Article
