Mon Jun 21, 2010
ONLINE BACKGROUND BRIEFING – Tue 22 June at 10.30am AEST online Thirty years ago this week Australia’s first IVF baby was born. Candice Reed, born in Melbourne on 23 June 1980 was Australia’s first IVF baby and only the third IVF baby to be born worldwide. The latest figures now show around 50,000 IVF treatment [...]
Thu Jul 24, 2008
Thirty years ago on Friday July 25, the world’s first test tube baby was born. The birth of Louise Brown in the UK in 1978 was closely followed by the birth of Australia’s first IVF baby, Candice Reed, in Melbourne in 1980. The latest figures from the National Perinatal Statistics Unit (NPSU) at the Australian [...]