http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Germany's upper house of parliament on Friday gave its green light to testing embryos after in vitro fertilisation in certain cases after a passionate ethical debate in the country on the issue. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-germany-genetic-embryos.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Fri, 01 Feb 2013 10:39:25 EST news278937551 He may not be much of a doctor but the children's faces light up when Dush The Clown shuffles onto their ward in his floppy shoes and red nose to prescribe his unique brand of medical care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-nepal-clowns-young-patients.html Health Wed, 19 Dec 2012 04:00:13 EST news275111842 The origins of congenital heart defects could be traced right back to the first stages of embryonic development, according to University of East Anglia (UEA) research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-congenital-heart-defects-early-pregnancy.html Cardiology Thu, 13 Dec 2012 17:21:26 EST news274641674 Asthma is more common among children born after infertility treatment than among children who have been planned and conceived naturally, according to findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study published online today (Thursday) in Europe's leading reproductive medicine journal Human Reproduction. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-children-born-infertility-treatment-asthma.html Inflammatory disorders Wed, 05 Dec 2012 19:00:01 EST news273948377 (Medical Xpress)—With an incredible diversity of cell types, the central nervous system (CNS), comprising the brain, spinal cord and retina, can be considered to be the most complex organ in the body. Professor Bill Harris, an experimental biologist and Head of the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, is fascinated by how this complex and sophisticated system is built out of a collection of undifferentiated cells. By putting an advanced technology to novel use, he has been able to observe for the first time the entire process of retinal development at the cellular level in zebrafish embryos. This has achieved a long-sought goal in developmental neurobiology: a complete analysis of the building of a vertebrate CNS structure in vivo. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-imaging-retinal-clues-neural-complexities.html Medical research Tue, 25 Sep 2012 07:31:45 EST news267777084 New research from the University of Kent has revealed the concerns of conception clinic staff involved in welfare of the child (WOC) assessments under the Human Fertilisation and Embryology (HFE) Act. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-fertilisation-clinics-welfare-child-pre-conception.html Other Mon, 10 Sep 2012 08:02:13 EST news266482921 The British woman who gave birth to the world's first test tube baby has died aged 64, her family said on Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-mother-world-tube-baby-dies.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Wed, 20 Jun 2012 13:07:33 EST news259416428 New long-lasting weekly injections of fertility hormones are as safe and effective as standard daily injections, according to Cochrane researchers. The researchers compared weekly and daily hormone injections in a Cochrane systematic review and found no difference in pregnancies or serious side effects between the two regimens. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-weekly-fertility-daily.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Tue, 12 Jun 2012 19:00:06 EST news258745420 Scientists at University College Dublin have discovered a new way of measuring the potential success rate of an embryo before it is transferred back into the womb during in vitro fertilisation (IVF). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-successful-ivf-embryos-scientists.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:10:14 EST news249732608 Researchers from The Netherlands have found that subfertile women whose ovaries are stimulated into producing extra eggs for in vitro fertilisation (IVF) have an increased risk of ovarian malignancies, in particular borderline ovarian tumours, later in life. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-ovarian-ivf-treatment-borderline-tumors.html Cancer Thu, 27 Oct 2011 04:00:01 EST news238905914 Researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed a new technique which could significantly increase success rates of pregnancies and reduce the frequency of multiple pregnancies associated with in vitro fertilisation (IVF). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-egg-movements-embryo-chance-survival.html Medical research Wed, 10 Aug 2011 03:56:56 EST news232167396