A new study shows that for women who have had multiple miscarriages, treatment with progesterone may help their chances of having a successful pregnancy. This study, which was recently published in the journal Fertility and Sterility, showed that 68% of women who received progesterone supplementation went on to have a successful pregnancy compared to 51% who did not receive progesterone.…
Several studies presented at the recent ASRM annual meeting reviewed data on ART outcomes for BRCA positive patients and the news is positive. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) allows for the transfer of only those embryos free of the mutation and success rates are comparable to the success rate achieved by patients without the mutation.
In a study in Colorado examining …
Embryos with a mix of normal and abnormal chromosomes implanted during in vitro fertilization (IVF) can develop into healthy newborns, a small new study suggests.
Researchers in Italy transferred so-called “mosaic embryos” — characterized by irregular numbers or arrangements of chromosomes in some cells — into 18 women during IVF procedures. All six full-term pregnancies that followed resulted in chromosomally …
RPMG’s Dr. Andy Huang was quoted in an article on Living Healthy, “More People Are Choosing the Sex of Their Babies, But Is It Ethical?”
There are two different reasons for gender selection, explains LivingHealthy expert and Beverly Hills-based OB-GYN Suzanne Gilberg-Lenz, MD. A medical reason, such as avoiding gender-specific diseases or abnormalities that favor one sex or the …
Fertility treatment is leading to a rise in the multiple birth rate, especially among women over 45, according to new figures. Data for England and Wales shows there were 10,839 women who gave birth to twins in 2014, while a further 148 gave birth to triplets and two to quads.
The rate of multiple births increased to 16 per 1,000 …
Low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH) does not increase ongoing pregnancy or live-birth rates in women with a viable pregnancy and unexplained recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL), according to a new study.
“Our data show that LMWH prescribed to women with unexplained RPL and a viable pregnancy does not increase live-birth rates. Moreover, our data show that any effect LMWH may have is minimal,” …
More than 1.5% of babies born in 2013 owe their lives to in vitro fertilization, and fewer of them were twins or triplets, according to new figures from the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology.
A total of 63,286 babies were born as a result of 174,962 attempts to use assisted reproduction treatments, according to the report. Both figures represent small …
More babies in the United States are being conceived by in vitro fertilization-IVF, a new report shows.
Nearly 2,000 more infants were born with the help of this assisted reproductive technology in 2013, compared with 2012, the researchers reported.
Almost 175,000 in vitro fertilization (IVF) cycles led to the birth of slightly more than 63,000 babies, compared with just over …
According to an on-line article on the globeandmail.com: Advances in fertility medicine are fast-paced. New ones are hardly out of the lab before they’re offered as “treatments” – one fertility doctor’s “experimental” is another’s “state-of-the-art.”
With so many points in the process for babymaking to go wrong, and would-be parents willing to fork over tens of thousands of dollars …
According to a report in the online edition of Human Reproduction, assisted reproductive technology, or ART which in the U.S. is 99% IVF, has markedly improved over the past 20 years, with the outcomes of these fertility treatments now better than ever.
Researchers used records from 92,000 children born through ART from 1988 to 2007 in Sweden, Denmark, Norway …