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VARTA's 2021 webinar, IVF add-ons: How to make choices that are right for you, was held on 14 July. Two experts, Dr Sarah Lensen and Professor Cindy Farquhar, discussed the latest research about add-ons (also known as adjuvants) and explained factors to consider when weighing them up.

For Christmas, I treated myself to an Ancestry.com DNA test because I wanted to see if there was any interesting lineage in my history. Was I from Vikings? Or Scottish, maybe? I did the test and thought nothing of it. Long story short, I was contacted by someone who let me know I was donor-conceived after he had found out via a DNA test that he was donor-conceived.

Boys born from intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) are not at higher risk of producing low quality sperm later in life, a new study suggests.

Following are extracts from 'Sperm Donor Anonymous' an ABC documentary about the effects of anonymous sperm donation on donor-conceived children, their families and on the sperm donors themselves.

Brin found that as her kids reached 10 to 11 years of age they began to ask many questions about their donor. Unfortunately, as she had used an anonymous donor she can’t answer these. In retrospect she wishes she had used an identity-released donor and urges people considering donation to think about the normal questions their child is likely to ask and to use a donor whose identity can be known to the child.

For the 2014 Louis Waller Lecture, three eminent obstetrics and gynaecology specialists discussed the topic the pros and cons of egg freezing for social reasons. Professor Catherine Waldby set the scene about the social context of egg freezing, while Professor Martha Hickey and Dr Devora Lieberman debated the pros and cons of social egg freezing. Important note: Presenters at the event argued positions in a debate and any opinions expressed in the course of the evening were not necessarily representative of individual views.

Studies show that a healthy diet can improve fertility and pregnancy health. But what does a healthy diet look like? Here are some hints from a recently published summary of studies looking at the effects of diet on female and male fertility.

Rose Overberg, a donor-conceived woman shares her experience of locating her donor via DNA testing at VARTA's 2019 seminar, The Genie is out of the bottle: DNA testing and the end of donor anonymity.

Professor Daniel Roos, shares his experience as sperm donor who was contacted by his donor offspring as a result of DNA detective work at VARTA's 2019 seminar, The Genie is out of the bottle: DNA testing and the end of donor anonymity.