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Monash IVF has reached confidential settlements with families impacted by embryo mix-ups at its Brisbane and Clayton clinics.

Monash IVF pays millions to families after horror embryo mix-ups

Families involved in two horror mix-ups that saw women implanted with the wrong embryos have received massive secret settlements from Monash IVF.

  • Grant McArthur

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Monash IVF will face new restrictions after the embryo bungle.

Monash IVF hit with conditions after Melbourne embryo mix-up

Victoria’s health regulator has slapped conditions on the fertility giant after a woman was implanted with the wrong embryo.

  • Henrietta Cook
Monash IVF has completed its investigation into two embryo bungles.

Monash IVF keeping details of embryo mix-up a secret. Even the minister thinks that’s not good enough

The fertility giant claims because of patient privacy, it can’t release a review into two bungles which saw a woman give birth to a stranger’s baby and another implanted with the wrong embryo.

  • Grant McArthur
Andrew Veitch donated his sperm to 15 women he met online.

Review considers crackdown on ‘Wild West’ of online sperm donation

A rapid review of Australia’s fertility sector will consider the regulation of sperm and egg donation across clinics, online groups and apps.

  • Henrietta Cook
Monash University’s Professor Mary Herbert with a colleague.

Healthy babies born to cutting-edge, controversial new three-person IVF technique

Eight babies have been born from a cutting-edge and controversial three-person IVF technique, Australian and British scientists have revealed.

  • Liam Mannix

Victoria has had a new IVF watchdog for six months. So far, it has not taken any action

Despite high-profile bungles in the assisted reproductive technology sector, the new regulator is yet to carry out a single enforcement action.

  • Grant McArthur
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How the most human of errors led to a woman giving birth to a stranger’s baby

Monash IVF counted a patient’s embryos and realised it had a catastrophic, life-altering problem on its hands.

  • Grant McArthur
Former Monash IVF chief operating officer Dr Hamish Hamilton.

Monash IVF has partial win over defecting executive

The Supreme Court has restricted the work that Monash IVF’s former chief operations officer can perform for rival company Virtus Health.

  • Grant McArthur
Alice Almeida has started the first support network for patients of IVF.

‘It felt like a business’: Patients unsettled over IVF bungles and an industry that controls itself

Would-be parents and those who have used IVF to conceive are anxious about the safety of fertility treatment following a series of recent bungles, as experts examine what must change.

  • Wendy Tuohy
Monash IVF is Australia’s second biggest fertility clinics group with an estimated 25.3 per cent market share.

The collateral damage from Monash IVF’s colossal embryo bungles

Monash IVF hasn’t just undermined its own reputation and customer confidence; it must result in a confidence wobble for the entire industry.

  • Elizabeth Knight