The reproductive medicine revolution

What: 17th annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction & Embryology
When: Sunday 1 July 2001 – Wednesday 4 July 2001
Where: Palais de Beaulieu Congress and Exhibition Centre, Lausanne, Switzerland

New findings in the research field of human reproductive medicine will be presented by fertility experts from Europe, the Americas, Asia and Australasia.

News briefings:
Professor Neils Skakkebaek, Denmark, on a new syndrome hitting men's reproductive health
Professor David Barker, UK, on foetal development and risk for disease in later life
Professor Eberhard Nieschlag, Germany, on the ageing male and hormone therapy
Professor Susan Golombok, UK, results of the world's first study to follow the health of children born through assisted reproductive techniques (ART) from childhood to adolescence
Professor Guido de Wert, Netherlands, on cloning

Samples of conference presentations:
Foetal development and risk for disease in later life (UK)
Obesity and miscarriage after IVF treatment (Australia)
A do-it-yourself sperm test kit for home use (UK)
Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis for Huntington's Disease - is it an option? (Netherlands)
Cigarette smoking and its effect on IVF success (France)
ICSI for couples where the male is HIV positive - study on safety (France)
Raloxifene (the alternative HRT) and ovarian cancer patients - effect on ovarian cancer cells (USA)
The link between thrombophilia and recurrent miscarriage (UK)
What fertility couples feel about pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) (Australia)
Ovarian cryopreservation - prospects of babies for women with Turner's syndrome? (Sweden)
Sorting the girls from the boys: new method dramatically increases rate of female embryos for PGD of X-linked diseases (USA)
Impact of legislation regulating IVF and embryo research on centres and patients (UK)
PGD - ethics and guidelines in the USA (USA)
Scientists call for international registry of IVF patients' chromosome abnormalities (Israel)
World-first: healthy lambs born after frozen - thawed ovarian autograft (France)
ART in Europe - new unpublished data on IVF and ICSI in Europe (ESHRE)

Registration is free to the media and all sessions are open. Media centre with computing, fax, free national and international phone and internet facilities available.

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