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One in six couples experience trouble conceiving, and we are working towards a future where everyone in the community has the opportunity to create a family. Our Fertile Minds blog provides fertility related information authored by our leading minds from across the Virtus Health group. Here you can find the latest research, studies and fertility related information to help you understand fertility - from planning right through to treatment and technologies.
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*All opinions expressed on the blog belong to the individual doctors, scientists and specialists, not the Virtus Health group.
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Does contraception affect future fertility?
14 May 2015

Written by
Dr Renee Verkuijl

IVF & embryo donation – the gift of a family
7 May 2015

Written by
Dr Melissa Luckensmeyer

Same-Sex Couples Wanting to Fall Pregnant – Why use a Fertility Clinic?
6 March 2015

Written by
Prof. Michael Chapman

The extraordinary gift of sperm donation in Australia
3 February 2015

Written by
Prof. Michael Chapman

Understanding IVF success rates
4 November 2014

Written by
Assoc. Prof. Peter Illingworth

Third-party reproduction
22 July 2014

Written by
Dr Susan Winspear

Current study: Can acupuncture support IVF treatment?
19 June 2014

Written by
Assoc. Prof. Gavin Sacks

15 years of IVF patients – how have women changed?
12 April 2014

Written by
Leita Fien

Fertility Preservation: Hope for the future
23 February 2014

Written by
Dr Kate Stern

Children of IVF parents as healthy as those conceived spontaneously
21 February 2014

Written by
Assoc. Prof. John McBain

Post mortem sperm retrieval – a matter of life and death
17 November 2013

Written by
Dr Ben Kroon

There’s a sperm donor shortage in Australia – but only 20% of men know about it
8 June 2013
Written by
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