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 …
It seems like just yesterday: 1978 and the first IVF baby, Louise Brown, was born in England. In 1981 the first IVF baby was born in the U. S. Now there are over one million IVF babies in the U. S.
The latest report on in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and other assisted reproductive techniques (ART) from the American Society for Reproductive …
Egg freezing for fertility preservation is relatively new and there is not a lot of information available about how women perceive this technology. This information will help doctors counsel their patients on the wisdom of pursuing this procedure in the context of their lives. It can also help others make the decision to consider fertility preservation at an age when …
According to an article from Reuters, women who have insurance coverage for in vitro fertilization (IVF) may be more likely to have a baby than women who have to pay entirely out-of-pocket for fertility treatments.
In any given attempt at IVF, insurance status didn’t influence whether women had a baby, the study found. But when the first cycle of IVF …
A recent article in Newsweek looks at “add-ons” to the basic IVF cycle and comes to the conclusion that there is no evidence that many of them help except the endometrial “scratch”: biopsy in the cycle before the transfer.
These add-ons include blastocyst culture, where the embryo is allowed to grow in the lab for five days instead of the …
In 2012, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine decided egg freezing was no longer an experimental procedure. That opened the door for clinics to market it to women who don’t have a medical reason to do it but are simply worried about their declining fertility — what’s being dubbed as “social” egg freezing.
John Robertson, a professor of law and …
A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association examined outcome of egg donor cycles in the U. S. But what was their definition of a good outcome?
The authors examined trends and outcomes in donor egg cycles from 2000 to 2010 and analyzed predictors of good perinatal outcomes among in vitro fertilization cycles using fresh (non-cryopreserved) embryos …
This is one of a series of news items from abstracts of studies presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine as complied by Dr. David Meldrum, Scientific Director of Reproductive Partners. We appreciate the enormous amount of work it takes to compile and comment on these abstracts.
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