at five lb and 12 oz, louise joy brown this world.ejoy brown proved for the very first time in vitro fertilisation actually worked. i was actually down in town christmas shopping when the post came. four decades on, i met her in the science museum in london, an exhibition charting the journey of ivf, one which louise brown has been on all her life. it's all here, louise's hospital tags, the letter sent to her mother telling her she was in the early stages of pregnancy and the veryjar which held the petri—dish with the embryo that was to become louise. i mean, out of all those people that was in the room when i was born, there's only two of us when i was born, there's only two of us still alive so i feel it's sort of my duty to go around and prove to people that i am normal, prove that there is no problem with ivf children. the other person still alive is 82—year—old doctorjohn webster. he helped deliver louise. it was all done under a certain amount of secrecy, only the essential people involved had been told. 0h, told. oh, she cried

s louise brown was conceived in a lab in the u.k. since then more than six million babies have been born using i.v.'s around the world has katherine strauss. i know christina and martina mccarthy have their hands full. their children zoe and santina are two energetic happy and healthy toddlers but they and their husbands would never have been able to experience the joys of parenthood if it weren't for the development of in vitro fertilization i've put this is to cause a very. yeah it was my only my only chance of conceiving if it wasn't for the treatment being if i had it but he wouldn't be here i think it's amazing that through this miracle of medical intervention we were able to have a beautiful healthy daughter it all began with louise brown she was conceived in a british laboratory in november one thousand nine hundred seventy seven after robert edwards patrick steptoe and jean purdy spent nearly a decade trying to fertilize a human egg outside the body and was just shy of her fortieth birthday louise a celebrated at london scien

anchor: today marks the 40th anniversary of louise brown, the ivfst person ever born from technology.ter: the lovely louise was called the first ever baby born from ivf technology. it marks one of the century's greatest scientific turning points that pushed the limits and of becoming what is today a commonplace reproductive measure. this article is looking ahead to what it could achieve in the three parentding babies where dna from a couple is inserted into a third-party egg. the other step for the future is ivg. cells are taken from a person's skin or bloody, and metro market -- skin or blood, and later used. anchor: australia and new zealand sparring over their flanks. reporter: stop -- the flanks. us.rter: th stop copying they say australia should changes flag because it was too much like the new zealand one, was created first. the qe flag was addicted -- the i flag was adopted in 1902, the australian in 1988 stuart: it was first flown in 1901. and ugly tv network mistake on these shows, the tv flagged this year. anchor: i bet that went down very badly. i can only imagine. ♪ music

an exhibition charting the journey of ivf, one that louise brown has been on all her life.s of pregnancy, and the veryjar that held the petri dish with the embryo that was to become louise. i mean, out of all those people that were in the room when i was born, there's only two of us still alive. so i feel it is sort of my duty to go around and prove to people i am normal, proof that there is no problem with ivf children. the other person still alive is 82—year—old drjohn webster. he helped deliver louise. it was all done under a certain amount of secrecy. only the essential people involved had been told. oh, she cried straightaway. which is great when any baby is born. that is the first thing you are listening for, whether it is delivered vaginally or by caesarean section. but she cried lustily. and as the browns returned home as a family of three, a flood of congratulations after her birth. over 400 cards, letters and telegrams from all over the world. # happy birthday, dear louise # the bbc filmed with louise 30 years ago on her tenth birthday. even then, she could explai

s louise brown was conceived in a lab in the u.k. since then more than six million babies have been born using i.v.'s worldwide is katherine stands. i know christina and martina mccarthy have their hands full. their children zoe and santina are two energetic happy and healthy toddlers but they and their husbands would never have been able to experience the joys of parenthood if it weren't for the development of in vitro fertilisation all i've put us is to cause a very. yeah it was my only my only chance of conceiving if it wasn't for the treatment being if i did he wouldn't be here i think it's amazing that through this miracle of medical intervention we were able to have a beautiful healthy daughter it all began with louise brown she was conceived in a british laboratory in november one nine hundred seventy seven after robert edwards patrick steptoe and jean purdy spent nearly a decade trying to fertilize a human egg outside the body and was just shy of her fortieth birthday louise a celebrated at london science museum she's the foc

. >>> this week marks the 40th anniversary of the birth of louise brown.hen millions have been born. one of the advances is preimplantation genetic diagnosis. it helps doctors identify genetic defects within an embryo when parents carry serious diseases. parents now have the ability to select the healthiest embryos.lr one and still get high success. >> columbia university researchers are working with new technology that might allow them to do the testing in hours. >>> coming up on "cbs this morning," in our series "reporter's notebook," john dickerson reflects on a recent milestone in his life, turning 50, and coming to terms with the inevitable passage of time. i'm anne-marie green. this is the "cbs morning news." h the inevitable passage of time. i'm anne-marie green. this is the "cbs morning news." powerful odor control with activated charcoal. free of dyes. free of fragrances. tidy cats free & clean. when no scents makes sense. only tylenol® rapid release gels have laser drilled holes. they release medicine fast, for fast pain relief. tylenol® and they

today is a very special birthday for one woman and for modern science forty years ago louise brown was born the first person ever conceived using in vitro fertilization she became known to the world as the test tube baby brown was born by says very inception in england on this day in one thousand nine hundred seventy eight her mother tried for years to become pregnant before finding success with the breakthrough procedure parents. they shied from the public sensation that her birth caused by the family spent louise's twenty fifth birthday at the fertility clinic that gave understood. well today in vitro fertilization has become a common procedure in germany alone it is carried out about fifty thousand times every year but back in the one nine hundred eighty s. germany's first i.v.s. baby sparked a huge debate on the ethics of creating life in a test you we spoke with one of the pioneers of reproductive medicine involved when touch can evolve the pulls on some of her old documents she's very quickly transported back to nine hundred eighty one she was part of a team of specialists at the

sperm and embryos and really that that has it has made a huge difference from the desiccated that louise brown was first conceived into the high tech incubator that looked after these very fragile embryos what do you know the other thing is that the lab and the most significant. story carol if i can just jump in what would you say are some of the the single biggest misconception that women have when they come for i v f because as you said you know the percentages have increased but they're still not great there's still so many factors for it to be successful what do you think is the biggest myth about it. the biggest myth or think is that it's going to work first time and part of our job practitioners in the field is to make sure that people are aware of what their probability of success is because it is probabilistic yes we are achieving better success rates than natural conception per cycle but we still fail more than fifty percent on each attempt however if you if your mind is set three cycles of five e.f. up to three cycles of five years we can give nine out of ten couples parenthood and i

you follow the story of louise brown for many years. born. it's achieved countless joy for all these families ——8 countless joy for all these families —— 8 million babies. countless joy for all these families -- 8 million babies. with the joy goes a lot of pain for some people. as we know, not every cycle works. what kind of impact did it have? infertility is the most traumatic and distressing thing i've ever experienced. it is for the vast majority of people who go through it. we know as a charity that 90% of people are depressed, az% of people feel suicidal. experiencing not being able to conceive month after month after month, your hopes dashed every single month, was terrible. the ivf journey every single month, was terrible. the ivfjourney is every single month, was terrible. the ivf journey is so distressing. for example, i started my treatment, i was so excited and full of hope. we had our first cycle and i got that positive extra pregnancy line, i was pregnant and so full of hope. i went for the first scan and unfortunately my e

the british public was shocked by a science that could substitute for nature when louise brown the first test tube baby was born in the minds of many back then artificial conception would inevitably produce munster's lead deformed babies. are. born to healthy crying. forty years on and i v.f. is now practiced daily across the globe today about three hundred fifty thousand children are born every year as a result of assisted reproduction technologies. three percent of all births in western countries three in a thousand in the rest of the world. it's a market projected to be worth twenty billion dollars by the year two thousand and twenty. medically assisted reproduction is increasingly widespread in india it's less expensive than in the west and as such far more widely affordable this is one of the world's top clinics. its founder dr nayana patel renamed the facility meaning desire or wish. but. here's the way to break out the fed feeding that for you. every step the laser assisted. to get that knowledge you just need to think asian technology with the biggest freezer that's of the limit

miracle of medical intervention we were able to have a beautiful healthy daughter it all began with louise brown she was conceived in a british laboratory in november one thousand nine hundred seventy seven after robert edwards patrick steptoe and jean purdy spent nearly a decade trying to fertilize a human egg outside the body and was just shy of her fortieth birthday louise a celebrated at london science museum she's the focus of an i.d.f. exhibit which features the very desiccate or where her embryo was developed it's just amazing how many children have been born through the process. jaime lights in families is created and hope and joy is just. a mind prices be the first one i.v.'s may be commonplace now but there was a lot of controversy when we as brown was born many religious leaders denounced the use of any kind of medical intervention and other critics said i.v.'s could pave the way for so-called franken babies louisa's family received many letters of support but they also received hate mail including letters splattered with fake blood not only has the perception of i.v.'s changed so has

miracle of medical intervention we were able to have a beautiful healthy daughter it all began with louise brown she was conceived in a british laboratory in november one thousand nine hundred seventy seven after robert edwards patrick steptoe and jean purdy spent nearly a decade trying to fertilize a human egg outside the body and was just shy of her fortieth birthday louise a celebrated at london science museum she's the focus of an i.d.f. exhibit which features the very desiccate or where her embryo was developed it's just amazing how many children have been born through the process. jaime lights in families this created in hope and joy is just. a mind prices be the first one i.v.'s may be commonplace now but there was a lot of controversy when we as brown was born many religious leaders denounced the use of any kind of medical intervention and other critics said i.v.'s could pave the way for so-called franken babies louisa's family received many letters of support but they also received hate mail including letters splattered with fake blood not only has the perception of i.v.'s changed so ha

an update on the brown grass, it is still brown. louise phone and talk to children, parents are told. they need to spend more face—to—face time with their teenage children to avert the mental health crisis in young people. it's based on research done in iceland. there were a generation of icelandic children drinking an awful lot, spending will not so much time with their parents and drink and drug use and they are trying to reverse that by spending time at home, getting involved in local activities, sports clubs. it did actually worked. between 1997 and 2007, the proportion of adolescents who said they had been drunk dropped from a2% to 20% in the space of a month and a drop of cigarettes used. pa rents month and a drop of cigarettes used. parents need to drive this. daniel smart phone and ashley talk to your children. let's talk about the weather in further detail. it is warm already, isn't it? it certainly is. at four o'clock in the morning in hull, the temperatures were still 20 celsius and hadn't fallen any lower. the top temperature w

an exhibition charting the journey of ivf, one that louise brown has been on all her life.t held the petri dish with the embryo that was to become louise. i mean, out of all those people that were in the room when i was born, there's only two of us still alive. so i feel it is sort of my duty to go around and prove to people i am normal, prove that there is no problem with ivf children. the other person still alive is 82—year—old drjohn webster. he helped deliver louise. it was all done under a certain amount of secrecy. only the essential people involved had been told. 0h, she cried straightaway. which is great when any baby is born. that is the first thing you are listening for, whether it is delivered vaginally or by caesarean section. but she cried lustily. and as the browns returned home as a family of three, a flood of congratulations after her birth. over 400 cards, letters and telegrams from all over the world. # happy birthday, dear louise! the bbc filmed with louise 30 years ago on her tenth birthday. even then, she could explain the science behind her life. well,

next week, it will be 40 years since louise brown was born. from a previous relationship, which means in most of england nowadays, he and his wife would be ineligible for nhs treatment. the charity fertility network uk are calling it "social rationing". eight out of 10 clinical commissioning groups — they're the bodies that oversee health commissioning in local areas — do not enable access to ivf if one of the couple has children from a previous relationship. well, earlier i spoke to catherine hill from preston, who works for the chairty fertility network uk — she found herself in that situation. her husband already had a child from previous relationship and she was refused ivf on the nhs. she's been sharing her story with us. i first started trying to conceive when i was in my mid—thirties. i hadn't met the man that i wanted to have children with before then, and i knew that there were stories about fertility dropping after 35, but i thought i should be ok. so i started trying to have a baby, but itjust didn't happen. i was aware that i might

that is a very special birthday for one woman and for modern science forty years ago louise joy brown was born the first person ever conceived using in vitro fertilization she became known as the was a test tube baby she was born by syrian section in england on this day in one nine hundred seventy eight her mother had tried for years to become pregnant before finding success with the breakthrough procedure of artificial insemination his parents shied away from the public sensation of a birth yet the family spent loses twenty three hundred by one thousand other children who'd also been born through artificial insemination. now today in vitro fertilization has become routine in germany alone it's kind out around fifty thousand times every year but back in the early eighty's germany's first i.b.s. baby sparked a huge debate on the ethics of creating life in a test tube we spoke to one of the pioneers of reproductive medicine. when talking on acne valda pulls out some of her own documents she's very quickly transported back to nine hundred eighty one she was part of a team of specialists

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brown life and death with a few. starts july twenty first on d. w. . va. hello everyone i'm louise houghton and happy to be here in berlin high senior i'm asking you this coming week let's get the ball rolling with a look at what's coming up on the show. crazy eights cultural events with a knock on effect and a festival and leo but. don't see the town stars hannah jonas minute brings his new album to berlin. and fun in the sun testing the wild ride at water wells in cyprus. one of the two cities named as this year's european capitals of culture is leo wagner in the netherlands in a bid to raise awareness of the city they called upon local artist martin vintages now most tourists to a city follow a tour guide or a map to see the sights box when this man is involved people can follow the artistic events set up along the streets one after the other it's been called the eighth day of festival and it looks a lot of fun. and a real f. sixteen jet fighter is on a collision course in one of the city's squares the city has gone on for braving the. i think they've done a good. job but he cou

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louise will be here tomorrow morning from 6am. have a lovely sunday. good bye. this is bbc news. i‘m ben brown.urity under new government plans for a minimum three year tenancy. coming up — new protection for people buying trips from holiday booking websites come into force today. a new eu wide directive means websites such as expedia, ebookers and on the beach can be held financially responsible for any problems. it‘s thought ten million holidays will benefit.