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Annual Meeting

Written by Sophie Goodchild

A session on artificial intelligence (AI) highlighted how the technology is gradually changing approaches to reproductive care and optimising outcomes but validation is crucial. ...

8 Jul, 2025

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Annual Meeting

Results from small-scale study highlight potential – but not proven – risks of microplastics to fertility and reproductive health....

Written by Sophie Goodchild

8 Jul, 2025

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Written by Sophie Goodchild

Annual Meeting
Highlights are outlined at annual meeting from the first update since 2019....

8 Jul, 2025

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Written by Sophie Goodchild

Annual Meeting
New evidence presented at a session on mental health in fertility care shows women are especially vulnerable to depression after miscarriage....

8 Jul, 2025

3 min read

Written by Sophie Goodchild

Annual Meeting
A session on artificial intelligence (AI) highlighted how the technology is gradually changing approaches to reproductive care and optimising outcomes but validation is crucial. ...

8 Jul, 2025

4 min read

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Annual Meeting Executive Committee

Professor Dr Anis Feki was elected as ESHRE’s new chairperson at the society’s annual meeting in Paris. Sophie Goodchild interviews him about his career as a surgeon, the life lessons he’s learned, and his vision for ESHRE during his term in office....

Interview with Prof Dr Anis Feki

16 Jul, 2025

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Interview with Dr Hélène Malmanche

Annual Meeting DNA Policy and Advocacy
Donor-conceived children are using direct-to-consumer DNA tests to trace their donors – and their siblings. Dr Hélène Malmanche, of INED, Paris, spoke to Fiona MacRae about the consequences for those who do the tests and the potential implications for policy. ...

16 Jul, 2025

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Interview with Dr Lennie van Hanegem

Annual Meeting Endometriosis
Endometriosis takes about five years longer to diagnose in adolescents and young adults. Dr Lennie van Hanegem, of UMC Utrecht in the Netherlands, tells Fiona MacRae why this is, what the potential consequences are and what the ESHRE guidelines say about diagnosis and...

16 Jul, 2025

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Interview with Vegard Lunde

Annual Meeting Infertility
Vegard Lunde, from Oslo, talks to Fiona MacRae about how it felt to be diagnosed with azoospermia, what it was like to watch his wife go through IVF (with donor sperm) and what clinics can do better. He also gives his top tips for other men who are in the same situati...

16 Jul, 2025

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Annual Meeting Sperm Count

A pre-congress course featured highlights from ESHRE’s journals including a study on declines in global sperm counts. Here, the paper’s author Professor Hagai Levine, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, talks to Sophie Goodchild talks about what his findings mean ...

Interview with Sophie Goodchild

16 Jul, 2025

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Interview with Fiona MacRae

IVF
Advances in IVF are creating new ethical dilemmas around when to treat and when to say no. At a Campus course on the intersection between high-risk pregnancies and patient autonomy, Dr Kilian Vomstein, of Copenhagen University, spoke to Fiona MacRae about the importan...

29 May, 2025

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Interview with Sophie Goodchild

ESHIRE Activities ESHRE Workshop
Personalised medicine in reproduction was the focus in May for ESHRE's first ever campus to involve all special interest groups. Sophie Goodchild from Focus on Reproduction asks Professor Anja Pinborg for her views on how clinics can tailor treatments to patients, the ...

15 May, 2025

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Interview with Interview with Alessandra Alteri

ART ESHRE Workshop
A Campus workshop meeting in March looked at the impact of ART on the physical and mental health of patients and their children, now and in the future. Here, Alessandra Alteri, coordinator SIG Safety and Quality in ART, talks to Sophie Goodchild from Focus on Reproduct...

8 Apr, 2025

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