☕️ Monash IVF's second embryo mix-up

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Monash IVF has announced a second incorrect embryo transfer in as many months.

In a statement to the ASX this morning, the fertility company said it is conducting an internal investigation after a recent incident at one of its Victorian clinics.

It comes after Monash IVF revealed in April that an embryo mix-up led to a Queensland woman giving birth to a baby that wasn’t hers.

Monash IVF has announced that last Thursday, a patient received a transfer of their own embryo, instead of their partner’s, as had been planned.

The incident happened at a clinic in the Melbourne suburb of Clayton.

“Monash IVF has extended its sincere apologies to the affected couple, and we continue to support them,” it said.

In April, it was revealed that a Monash fertility clinic in Brisbane had transferred the wrong embryo to a patient, who gave birth to a stranger’s baby.

An initial investigation found it was the result of human error.

The mistake was only discovered when the birth parents requested the transfer of their remaining embryos, and the clinic found an additional unexpected embryo.

It was not revealed how old the child was when the mistake was discovered.

A U.S. court has dismissed actor Justin Baldoni’s $US400 million defamation lawsuit against his former co-star Blake Lively and The New York Times.

Lively had accused Baldoni of sexual harassment on the set of the 2024 film ‘It Ends With Us’, which he responded to by counter-suing her.

This latest development means the counter-lawsuit has been thrown out, but the initial lawsuit still stands.

Here’s why the case was dismissed.

These lawsuits centre around the making of the film adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s 2016 best-selling novel ‘It Ends With Us’.

The film was produced by Wayfarer Studios, a production company co-founded by Baldoni.

Baldoni played the male lead, and also directed the film. Lively played the female lead, and was also a producer.

During the press tour last August, Lively was widely accused of trivialising the film’s theme of domestic violence.

In December 2024, Lively filed a lawsuit against Wayfarer Studios, Baldoni, and several other senior executives involved in the film’s production.

There were several allegations levelled against Baldoni which can broadly be separated into two categories: alleged sexual harassment and the alleged coordination of a PR campaign to damage Lively’s reputation.

The legal complaint was first published in an article in The New York Times.

Baldoni denied the allegations.

In January, Baldoni filed a $US400 million counter-lawsuit against Lively, her husband Ryan Reynolds, and her publicist.

The group were being sued for an invasion of privacy and civil extortion (obtaining information through wrongful force).

Baldoni also accused Lively of hijacking the film’s production, cutting him out of the process, and making false allegations against him.

The actor also filed a defamation lawsuit against The New York Times.

This morning, the U.S. District Court in New York dismissed Baldoni’s case against Lively.

The judge said that Baldoni had not adequately proven that Lively’s attempt to ‘hijack’ the film was “wrongful extortion” rather than exercising her legal right of “bargaining or renegotiation of working conditions”.

In the matter of Baldoni’s defamation case, Lively’s published allegations were not considered defamatory because they referenced statements made in a publicly filed legal case.

Judge Lewis Liman added that while The Times retold Lively’s claims “perhaps in a dramatised manner”, he believed they had “no obvious motive to favour Lively’s version of events.”

While Judge Liman dismissed all of Baldoni’s claims, he has granted the actor a chance to amend and refile another lawsuit by 23 June. This would need to relate to any alleged breaches of contract.

In a statement to U.S. media, Lively’s lawyers celebrated the ruling, calling it a “total victory and a complete vindication.”

In a post to Instagram, Lively described feeling “the pain of a retaliatory lawsuit.”

She said the outcome has left her “more resolved than ever to continue to stand for every woman’s right to have a voice in protecting themselves.”

Neither Baldoni or his lawyers have publicly commented on the decision.

Reporting by Achol Arok.

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Typically, patients seeking a diagnosis for coeliac disease need to eat large amounts of gluten for weeks to get an “accurate diagnosis”. Now, researchers at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI) believe a blood test they’ve developed can “take away the pain of diagnosis” by allowing patients to remain on gluten-free diets. Associate Professor and gastroenterologist Jason Tye-Din said the test will speeds up “accurate diagnosis whilst avoiding the suffering”.

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Reporting by Anju Dhanushkodi.

Tinder has launched a new filter that allows users to filter matches based on height.

It joins dating app rivals Hinge and Bumble, who already have height filters for their paid users.

The filter has gained some support but also garnered criticism from “short kings” who say the may be unfairly affected.

A Tinder spokesperson told TDA that they are “always listening to what matters most to our Tinder users – and testing the paid height feature… is part of a broader effort to help people connect more intentionally”.

However, they added “not every test becomes a permanent feature.”

Reporting by Anju Dhanushkodi.

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Riddle answer: 1, 2, and 3 (1 + 2 + 3 = 6 and 1 x 2 x 3 = 6).

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