NEW DELHI, Oct 5, 2008 (AFP) - India has finalised a draft law to regulate one of its most successful but ethically problematic 'outsourcing' industries -- providing surrogate mothers for childless couples.

PARIS, August 27, 2008 (AFP) - Men who enjoy warming their bottom on a heated car seat should beware, for they may also be frying their chances of fatherhood, New Scientist reports in its latest issue.

Sperm production is best when the temperature of the scrotum is one or two degrees Celsius (1.8-3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) below the core body temperature of 37 C (99 F).

Contraceptive pills taken by tens of millions of women around the world can disrupt the innate ...

LONDON, July 23, 2008 (AFP) - The birth of Louise Brown, the world's first IVF baby, hit headlines around the globe three decades ago -- but the married mother-of-one wants to keep her 30th birthday Friday low-key by contrast.

PARIS, July 6, 2008 (AFP) - Women's pregnancy rates drop and miscarriages increase when the baby's father is over 40 years old, according to a study to be released Monday.

PARIS, July 6, 2008 (AFP) - Women's pregnancy rates drop and miscarriages increase when the baby's father is over 40 years old, according to a study to be released Monday.

PARIS, July 5, 2008 (AFP) - Children born to a surrogate mother or conceived through donated sperm or a donated egg do just as well psychologically as counterparts who are naturally conceived, a study unveiled on Sunday said.

PARIS, July 5, 2008 (AFP) - Children born to a surrogate mother or conceived through donated sperm or a donated egg do just as well psychologically as counterparts who are naturally conceived, a study unveiled on Sunday said.

WARSAW, April 27, 2008 (AFP) - Keen to secure their careers or uncertain of their future in a still-poor region, Eastern Europe's women are reluctant to have babies, in stark contrast to communist times when high birthrates were a rare success of the system.

ZLIN, Czech Republic, Feb 18, 2008 (AFP) - This soulless eastern industrial town not far from the Czech border with Slovakia is the source of life for many women, who travel here to have test tube babies at private fertility clinics.

PARIS, Feb 8, 2008 (AFP) - Acupuncture can increase the chance of success for couples seeking to have a baby through in-vitro fertilisation (IVF), according to a review published online Friday by the British Medical Journal (BMJ).

WARSAW, Dec 18, 2007 (AFP) - Roman Catholic clerics in Poland on Tuesday condemned in vitro fertilization (IVF) as 'inadmissible and undignified' in a public letter from the Polish Episcopate to parliamentarians.

Clergymen protested the method on the grounds that 'many embryos perish' with each trial and termed it a 'type of refined abortion'.

LONDON, Dec 4, 2007 (AFP) - A British man who donated sperm to allow a lesbian couple to have a baby was criticized Tuesday after claiming he is being unfairly forced to pay for the child.

LONDON, Sept 22, 2007 (AFP) - Two British clinics are pioneering a procedure that will allow human eggs to be grown in the laboratory from ovarian tissue samples, a newspaper said Saturday.

The procedure, which could be offered to patients in five years, would allow women to delay motherhood by 'banking' a piece of ovary tissue in a laboratory until they are ready to start a family, according to The Daily Telegraph.

It could also remove many of the risks associated with IVF treatment such as hyper-stimulation of the ovaries which can prove fatal, it said.