The late Austrian scientist Carl Djerassi, a key player in the development of the birth control pill, boldly proclaimed last year that IVF is the future of procreation.”Over the next few decades, say by the year 2050, more IVF fertilizations will occur among fertile women than the current five million fertility-impaired ones,” he told The Telegraph. “For them the separation between sex and reproduction will be 100 percent.”
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Unused Embryos Pose Difficult Issue: What to Do With Them
In storage facilities across the nation, hundreds of thousands of frozen embryos — perhaps a million — are preserved in silver tanks of liquid nitrogen. Some are in storage for cancer patients trying to preserve their chance to have a family after chemotherapy destroys their fertility. But most are leftovers from the booming assisted reproduction industry. And increasingly families, clinics and the courts are facing difficult choices on what to do with them — decisions that involve profound questions about the beginning of life, the definition of family and the technological advances that have opened new reproductive possibilities.
Ectopic Pregnancy From Assisted Reproduction Keeps Falling Also, no association between ART and offspring’s long-term academic performance
Nikolaos Polyzos, MD, PhD, of the Centre for Reproductive Medicine in Belgium, and colleagues found that ectopic pregnancies (EP) declined over a period of 12 years following ART (crude odds ratio 0.96 per year, 95% CI 0.95-0.97), even after adjusting for potential confounders (adjusted OR 0.97 per year, 95% CI 0.95-0.98).
IVF in Women Over 38: The Doctor’s Dilemma
It is a biological fact that female fertility declines with age – in assisted conception as in natural. Indeed, findings from a 12-year study reported today at the Annual Meeting of ESHRE by Dr Marta Devesa from the Hospital Universitaro Quiron-Dexeus in Barcelona, Spain, showed that in her own clinic cumulative live birth rates following IVF declined from 23.6% in women aged 38-39 years to 1.3% in those aged 44 and over.
Couples Needing Sperm Donation Favor the Same Donor for All Conceptions
Despite a prevalence of anonymous sperm donation in European countries, the use of the same sperm donor for subsequent conceptions is of paramount importance to those couples needing sperm donation to have children.
Aid to Women, or Bottom Line? Advocates Split on Libido Pill
At a small luncheon last July in an elegant downtown restaurant, two well-known Washington feminists came to celebrate Cindy Whitehead, a senior executive at a pharmaceutical firm that is developing a pill to revive women’s sex drive.
Kids Conceived With Assisted Reproductive Technology, Including IVF, Receive Equal Test Scores As Peers
Assisted reproductive techniques, such as artificial insemination and in vitro fertilization, have been used in the United States since 1981. A new study undoubtedly will assuage the fears of parents who have used (or hope to use) a birth technology to conceive a child. In ninth grade, the researchers found, academic performance of kids (including twins) conceived by assisted reproductive techniques is no better or worse than their peers.
Trying for a Baby? Summer ‘is The Best Time to Conceive’, say scientists as They Discover Sperm is More Active in July and August
Researchers have discovered that sperm is more active during the summer months. They believe that the months of July and August may be the best time to try for a baby, as sperm motility is considerably greater then, when compared to January.
Appellate Court Sides With Chicago Woman In Landmark Embryo Case
An Illinois appellate court on Friday sided with a Chicago woman in a landmark custody case over frozen embryos.
Women With Endometriosis Have Greater Risk Of Pregnancy Complications, Including Miscarriage and Ectopic Pregnancy
A recent study in the UK has found that women with endometriosis are more likely to experience complications during and after pregnancy, including an increased risk of miscarriage, and ectopic pregnancy.