Positive Trends in IVF

The latest data from the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART) show that Assisted Reproductive Technology, basically IVF, (ART) usage in the United States is increasing, while the multiple birth rate from ART cycles is decreasing. SART’s Preliminary Clinic Summary Report for 2016 consolidates data from 377 member clinics, performing 242,618 ART cycles, resulting in the births of 71,296 babies.…

SART Releases Latest IVF Data

The Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology has released the latest data on assisted reproductive technologies (ART) in the United States. The release consists of preliminary data from cycles done in 2015 and final data from 2014 cycles.

With the preliminary 2015 data in, they can definitively say that more than one million babies have been born from assisted reproductive technology …

IVF Live-Birth Rates Approach Those of Natural Conception

A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine links data from the SART Clinic Outcome Reporting System to show that, with favorable patient and embryo characteristics, IVF live-birth rates approach those of natural conception.

The researchers reviewed data from 246,740 women, with 471,208 cycles and 140,859 live births, finding that live-birth rates declined with increasing maternal age and