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Annual Meeting

Written by Sophie Goodchild

AI now being incorporated ‘at all stages’ of fertility treatment and IVF

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 IVF

Details of major advance in in vitro growth and maturation of oocytes are presented at ESHRE’s annual meeting....

Written by Fiona MacRae

14 Jul, 2026

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Written by Fiona MacRae

Annual Meeting ART
Meta-analysis of tens of millions of children concludes that those born through ART are more likely to have heart defects – but extra screening is not merited....

14 Jul, 2026

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Written by Fiona MacRae

Annual Meeting Global and Socio-Cultural Aspects of Infertility Miscarriage
Persistent socio-economic inequalities in pregnancy outcomes flagged up by quantitative population-level research. Women in the most deprived areas are more than twice as likely to be admitted as those in the least deprived parts of the country....

14 Jul, 2026

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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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Nursing and Midwifery

In this episode of the SIG Podcast series, Attilio Anastasi and Sara Ribeiro, from the ESHRE Journal Club editorial team, interview the authors of paper under discussion Sara Somers, Hilde Cotton and Eline Dancet and the junior deputy of the Special Interest Group Nurs...

18 Jun, 2026

30 min listen

Implantation and Early Pregnancy
Interviewed: Pavan Gill, Baris Ata...

11 Jun, 2026

38 min listen

Interview with Fiona MacRae with Sara Veleva

Campus Workshop
A hands-on campus workshop in Sofia gave participants from 19 countries the rare opportunity to learn about ultrasound in ART. Dr Sara Veleva, of the University of Helsinki, tells Fiona MacRae about the technical aspects that were covered, the special relationship betw...

9 Jun, 2026

14 min listen

Reproductive Surgery
This podcast was hosted by Dr. Üzeyir Kalkan from the Special Interest Group of Reproductive Surgery of ESHRE and by Dr. Dimitrios Kalaitzopoulos from the ESHRE Journal Club. Their guest is Dr. Isabelle Streuli from University Hospital of Geneva in Switzerland. The top...

4 Jun, 2026

25 min listen

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