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Select your baby's sex for £14,000: How British couples are being sent to Cyprus for illegal fertility treatments

A leading NHS fertility doctor is making money by sending couples abroad to choose the sex of their unborn baby – a procedure that is illegal in Britain.

Pictured: world's oldest mother, 70, lies dying with baby at her side after risking her life to beat stigma of being barren

The world's oldest mother is dying just 18 months after giving birth at the age of 70. Rajo Devi Lohan says she is too weak to recover from complications after her IVF pregnancy. News about her condition came as it emerged that a 66-year-old has become the oldest woman in the world to have triplets.

Single embryo implants 'work' better

Bangkok Post 03/25/2009
Controversial procedure enables kids to have DNA from three people to bypass genetic disorders

UK scienctists have created embryos containing DNA from a man and two women in a controversial experiment aimed at bypassing genetic disorders in families and eradicating fatal genetic diseases.

Single embryo implants 'work' better

Implanting single embryos into the wombs of women seeking to boost fertility is more effective and less costly than placing two embryos at a time, according to a pair of studies released on Wednesday.

Cooing over US octuplets turns to anger

Karin Zeitvogel Bangkok Post 02/03/2009
 
Cooing over US octuplets turns to anger

WASHINGTON (AFP) -- As the octuplets born to a California woman turned one week old, the coos and praise that surrounded their successful delivery turned into cries of anger from fertility experts and the public.