IVF

The leave period will typically start from the date of death or pregnancy loss (Picture: stock.adobe.com)

New family bereavement rights get the green light

Clinic opens up ‘new chapter in Scotland’s reproductive healthcare’

Penny Lancaster appears at Boswell Book Festival at Dumfries House on Friday, talking about her autobiography, Someone Like Me.

Model, rock star wife, cop, author - Penny Lancaster finds her voice

Fertility rate is predicted to fall 24% below replacement rate by 2045

Experts call for better fertility education as study reveals fertility knowledge...

Baby Amy Isabel, seen on her father Angus Davidson's shoulder, was born after her mother, Grace Davidson, had a womb transplant (Picture: Womb Transplant UK)

I know first-hand why critics of first womb transplant baby are wrong Christine Jardine

Primary school children are being encouraged to believe that they can change sex (Photo by Tim Graham)

Warning: This SNP government is harmful to young people Susan Dalgety

Ross Watson alongside his wife Annika.

Watch: IVF miracle baby born metres apart from his future wife

Lorraine Kelly is the latest recipient of Bafta's Special Award.

Lorraine Kelly on suffering miscarriage: Sometimes I wonder what might have been

Former Celtic midfielder Tom Rogic, pictured with his wife and daughter after his final match at Celtic Park on May 14 last year, has retired from football to focus on his family. (Photo by Craig Williamson / SNS Group)

Rogic 'forever grateful' to Celtic as midfielder retires following IVF heartache

Isabel Quigora and Scottish surgeon Richard Smith (right) performing a womb transplant on a 34-year-old woman. Picture: Womb Transplant UK/PA Wire

UK’s first womb transplant carried out by Scottish surgeon a ‘massive success’

Britain became the first country in the world to formally allow mitochondrial replacement therapy (MRT) when the HFEA gave a cautious green light to the procedure in 2017

Baby with DNA from three people born in UK first

Paris Hilton announced on Twitter that she has had her first child

Paris Hilton shocks fans as she announces birth of her first child

Sara Pascoe brings her new show, Success Story, to Scotland. Pic: Rachel Sherlock

Sara Pascoe on her new show, Success Story and the mother of all tours

Unvaccinated women can now receive IVF and other fertility treatments.

Covid Scotland: Unvaccinated women to be allowed IVF treatment

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New assisted dying bill would be fitting tribute for the late Margo MacDonald - ...

Dame Anne McLaren was an innovative scientist best known for her research on the development of embryos (Photo: PA and Google)

Who was Anne McLaren and why is Google celebrating her with a doodle?

Regrets: Ruth Davidson

'It's time to change the law' on assisted dying says MSP Ruth Davidson

Paloma Faith opens up about heartbreak, hope and her new music

If Muriel Spark, seen in 1960, did not see her first novel published until she was 39, then Alex Watson still has time to write a novel, record an album and move to New York (Picture: Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

What I know now at nearly 30 would rock my teenage self’s world – Alex Watson

Georgina Leslie and six week old daughter Aleena Shaw

How one Scots couple’s surrogacy dream came true in lockdown

The first gay couple in Scotland to receive IVF on the NHS have said how excited they are to welcome their baby into this world.

Edinburgh gay couple first in Scotland to be granted IVF on NHS are expecting a ...

Kevin Smith, from Abertay University in Dundee, has published analysis that found the risks of gene editing are now low enough to warrant its use with human embryos. Picture: Shutterstock

Ethical creation of ‘designer babies’ just two years away, scientist says

Tracey Britten hit the headlines last year when she gave birth to four IVF tots at 31 weeks.

Britain's oldest mum of quadruplets, 51, celebrates her babies' first birthdays

The happy couple took to social media to announce the news.

Woman who saved her husband's life with crowdfunder is expecting a baby

Little Lucy Thom, aged three, was born with a rare form of congenital heart disease. Picture: SWNS

Brave Scottish girl born with half a heart after parents refused to terminate pr...

According to HFEA figures in 2016, 18 per cent of IVF treatments using a patient's own frozen eggs were successful. Picture: Lex Van Lieshout/AFP/Getty Images

Declining birth rate in Scotland sparks IVF appeal for egg freezing on NHS

Some clinics have been charging four times as much as they should, at up to £20,000 per cycle, according to the fertility watchdog.

Older women exploited by IVF clinics ‘trading on hope’, watchdog warns

Louise Brown, the world's first 'test-tube baby', was born in 1978 (Picture: PA)

Private IVF clinics that offer false hope for childless couples are immoral – le...

Caroline Phillips, former chief executive of Fertility Clinics Abroad: 'fresh approach'. Picture: Contributed.

Edinburgh fertility specialist bought by Irish peer

Beata Bienias, 36 who lost five stone in order to get pregnant by IVF and then had triplets, Borris (camo), Amelia (pink) and Matilda (blue). Picture: SWNS

Mother conceives baby through IVF and twins naturally - in the same week

Little Emilie (second left) with her twin sister Elise, brother Harrison, seven, and parents Laura, 31, and Jonathan, 37. Picture: Cancer Research/PA Wire

Baby twin diagnosed with rare cancer at just seven weeks

The Scottish Conservative leader announced earlier this year that she was expecting a baby with partner Jen Wilson. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Pregnancy is joyous, fearful and hopeful, says Ruth Davidson

Lesley Brown, with husband John and their daughter, amassed boxes of letters, newspaper cuttings and other items marking the birth of Louise. Picture: PA

Archive on show to mark 40th birthday of first test tube baby

The NHS's first patient Sylvia Diggory, 13, speaks to the then Health Secretary Aneurin Bevan in 1948 at Trafford General Hospital in Greater Manchester (Picture: Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust/PA)

Leader comment: NHS at 70 faces tough choices to ensure survival

Father loses action against IVF clinic

Glasgow man creates world record by fathering twins 27 years after freezing sperm. Picture: John Jeffay

Scots man fathers twins 27 years after freezing sperm

Shift work and physically demanding jobs have been linked to a drop in fertility among women

Physically demanding jobs linked to lowered fertility

George Michael was big on charity donations - but he kept his generosity quiet. Picture: Getty Images

George Michael's biggest secret: His charity donations

Britain has become the first country in the world to give the go-ahead for licensed "three parent" baby treatments for inherited diseases.

'˜Three-parent' babies given go ahead by regulator

A scientist examines human embryos at an IVF clinic (Photo by Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images)

Scots scientists create online calculator to predict IVF baby chances

Picture: Ian Georgeson

The price to pay for full cost court fees is too high

our current targets often measure the wrong things, skew clinical priorities and waste resources. Picture: John Devlin.

Theresa Fyffe: Get rid of targets to help improve NHS Scotland
RETHINKING NHS Scotland's '˜targets culture' will benefit us all, writes Theresa Fyffe

Newborn baby
Picture: AP Photo/Alex Brandon

Procedure '˜doubles chance of conception'

There have been changes to the criteria on couples eligibility for IVF treatment

Martyn McLaughlin: IVF brings hope but also cause to question its meaning

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Leaders: Overhaul to IVF access a fair and just step

The Scottish NHS is to extend access to IVF treatment.

Scottish NHS widens IVF treatment access

Health Secretary Shona Robison. Picture: Ian Rutherford

Figures for outpatient waits soar since Holyrood guarantee

Children attend art class in the Chinese capital Beijing, where more families are turning to IVF so they can have another child. Picture: AP

China's new two-child rule sparks surge in IVF treatment

Rhys and Shaun Scott died after falling into tank at rented home. Picture: Contributed

HSE called in after tragic twin boys drown in fish pond

How Barnardo's Scotland helped us find our family

Picture: Alastair MacDonald and Bob Edwards in 1981

Alastair MacDonald - Scotland's first test tube baby

Scottish IVF study compares fresh and frozen embryos in UK-first trial

Embryo selection for IVF.

Waiting list for IVF in Scotland halved

The test could help couples undertaking fertility treatment. Picture: Getty

New ‘embryo energy’ test could boost IVF success

Research is allowed under strict rules, but not treatment. Picture: Getty Images

Embryo experiments ‘could hold key to miscarriages’

Scotlands first IVF baby Alastair MacDonald with Dr Bob Edwards in 1981. Picture: Contributed

Martyn McLaughlin: IVF still transforms lives

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