SvD: Thirteen minutes before midnight on July 25, 1978 Louise Joy Brown delivered a baby girl by Caesarean section at Oldham General Hospital outside Manchester UK.
The girl weighed 2610 grams and the responsible physician Patrick Steptoe was soon able to reassure the hundreds of journalists gathered that “all studies have shown that the child is completely normal. ” The news of the birth was a medical sensation. Louise Brown was the first child in the world born with the aid of in vitro fertilisation (IVF).
The girl weighed 2610 grams and the responsible physician Patrick Steptoe was soon able to reassure the hundreds of journalists gathered that “all studies have shown that the child is completely normal. ” The news of the birth was a medical sensation. Louise Brown was the first child in the world born with the aid of in vitro fertilisation (IVF).
BBC: Robert Edwards, the man who devised the fertility treatment IVF, has been awarded this year’s Nobel prize for medicine. His efforts in the 1950s, 60s and 70s led to the birth of the world’s first “test tube baby” in July 1978. Since then more than four million babies have been born following IVF.
The prize committee said his achievements had made it possible to treat infertility, a medical condition affecting 10% of all couples worldwide.
(That’s one prediction I got wrong)
Tags: In vitro fertilisation, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Robert Geoffrey Edwards
The k2p blog 
October 8, 2010 at 11:19 am
På Babyvärlden.se diskuterar vi just nu provrörsbefruktning och Nobelpriset i medicin. Gå gärna in och kommentera och länka till era bloggar:
http://www.babyvarlden.se/Nyhetsartiklar/MinStory-Ett-valkommet-nobelpris/
Mvh
Stefan Bergmark