IVF in Medical News

A Growing Number of Brits Cross the Atlantic for Donor Egg IVF Treatment at Shady Grove Fertility Center

Reverse medical tourism driven by donor egg availability and lower cost, innovative IVF financing options ROCKVILLE, Md., June 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- More and more couples from the United Kingdom are crossing the ocean for donor egg treatment at Shady Grove Fertility Center ( www.shad...

Found: First IVF Baby Born in East Bay 25 Years Ago

Private investigator locates California medical practice's oldest 'test-tube baby;' Three of America's IVF pioneer babies to meet at 25th anniversary reunion SAN RAMON, Calif., May 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Elizabeth Castro Wilson, who on March 18, 1985, became the first "IVF baby" born in the East...

Fertility Docs Cut Costs of IVF Conception by 60 Percent

IVF innovator introduces alternative to artificial insemination for less than $5,000 LAS VEGAS, April 9 /PRNewswire/ -- For decades women struggling to conceive a child usually have had but two stark choices for fertility treatments: the high-tech but high-cost process of in vitro fertiliza...

Washington DC-area IVF Specialist Suheil Muasher, MD Addresses Fears of Infertility Treatments after Octuplet Mom News

The recent controversy involving a California woman who gave birth to octuplets after fertility treatment has prompted many women considering In Vitro Fertilization to fear they may end up in a similar situation. A top Washington DC-area IVF Specialist says not only is the California case unusual...

Most IVF Patients Under 35 Should Have Single Embryo Transfer, According to Latest SART Data

Delaware Fertility Doctors Urge Worldwide Acceptance Newark, DE (PRWEB) March 17, 2009 -- IVF physicians at Reproductive Associates of Delaware (RAD)( http://www.reproductiveassociates.org ) have demonstrated that single embryos cultured under proper conditions have mor...

New DNA Test Is Basis for Groundbreaking IVF Refund Plan, Easing Financial Burden for Patients

NEW YORK, March 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The Sher Institutes of Reproductive Medicine (SIRM) announced today the introduction of the world's first CGH-Risk Sharing Plan that guarantees qualified IVF patients a baby or offers a full refund of the clinic's medical fees. CGH is an acronym for Compara...

'Wanted: Pioneer IVF Babies' Bay Area Fertility Doctors Launch National Search for First IVF Babies Born 25 Years Ago

California medical practice to celebrate 25th anniversary by re-uniting up to 280 of America's oldest 'test-tube babies' in June SAN RAMON, Calif., Feb. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- To celebrate its 25th anniversary as of the one of the nation's first private IVF clinics, the Reproductive Science Cen...

Lower Cost Minimal Stimulation IVF Being Performed by Virginia Fertility Doctor, Suheil Muasher

The Muasher Center for Fertility and IVF is now offering the less expensive Minimal Stimulation In Vitro Fertilization treatment to qualifying patients. Performed by esteemed http://www.mcfivf.com/html/staff_infertility_specialist.html [Virginia Fertility Doctor], Dr. Suheil Muasher, M.D., FACO...

Charlotte IVF Experts Issue Urgent Call for Egg Donors, Eye New Recruiting Tools

Wait time for donations is spiraling for older couples wanting to start families CHARLOTTE, N.C., Feb. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Radical shifts in parenting trends have fertility experts at Reproductive Endocrinology Associates of Charlotte (REACH) eyeing far more aggre...

Congenital heart defects increasing among IVF twins

The prevalence of congenital heart disease (CHD) among in vitro fertilization (IVF) pregnancies was similar to that of the general population, but there is an increasing risk of CHD among twins resulting from IVF, according to research by Yale School of Medicine researchers. Mert Ozan Bahtiyar...

Embryos Discarded During IVF Create Stem Cell Lines

Study says it's a possible source for such cell lines without the ethical issues MONDAY, Jan. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Embryos discarded from in vitro fertilization (IVF) clinics can be used to create stem cell lines, new research suggests. Researchers from Children's Hospital Boston ...

Leading IVF Practice to Open 11th New England Location

Reproductive Science Center to Open Melrose, Massachusetts Location in February LEXINGTON, Mass., Jan. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Reproductive Science Center of New England announces the opening of a new office in Melrose, Mass. to serve the needs of patients who live i...

Boston IVF is First in Northeast to Offer Pioneering Test of Women's Biological Clock

Repromedix's Plan Ahead(TM) Test Offers Most Accurate Measurement of Women's Ovarian Reserve WALTHAM, Mass., Jan. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Boston IVF today announced it will be the first IVF center in the northeast to offer Repromedix's Plan Ahead(TM) test, an innovative blo...

Bay IVF Experts Launch One of First East-West Fertility Programs of Its Kind

'Fertile Awakenings' program one of a handful nationwide interlinking traditional western and alternative fertility care SAN RAMON, Calif., Sept. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- This month the Reproductive Science Center of the Bay Area, one of nation's oldest IVF practices, launches "Fertile Aw...

World fertility experts to meet in Montreal - IVF and IVM patients to provide first-person accounts at 14th World Congress

MONTREAL, Sept. 12 /PRNewswire/ - The Montreal-based International Society for In-Vitro Fertilization (ISIVF) will host the 14th World Congress on In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) and the Third World Congress on In-Vitro Maturation (IVM), at the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal from Sept...

Seattle Reproductive Medicine Study Investigates Newly Formulated Medications for Luteal Support in IVF

SEATTLE, Jan. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Patients undergoing in vitro fertilization self-administer daily injections of progesterone from two to eight weeks after the egg retrieval procedure. The outcome of a new study of an investigational formulation of progesterone could replace these painful intra...

Research Identifies Predictors for Successful IVF

Ferring Pharmaceuticals Presents Infertility Study Results at American Society for Reproductive Medicine Annual Meeting SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Ferring Pharmaceuticals presented the results of a number of studies in assisted reproductive technology (ART) treatments at the 64th...

Uterus Size May Predict Risk for Premature Twins After IVF

Evaluation may help select women who are at lower risk for complications, study suggests THURSDAY, July 10 (HealthDay News) -- Measuring the height of the uterus of a women pregnant with twins after in vitro fertilization (IVF) can help determine her risk of having the babies born pr...

Single Embryo IVF Increase Chances of Having Child Sans Risky Multiple Births

According to a new research that studied hazardous multiple births, women undergoing IVF (In vitro fertilization) could be treated with single embryo without reducing their chances of having a child. The researchers found that that moving one embryo at a time to the womb can marginally rai...

Powerful New IVF Treatment Promises Better Results

Doctors have unveiled a new method of IVF, called as invitro maturation (IVM), which they claimed as "better than nature" at getting //some women pregnant and does not need high doses of potentially harmful hormones. Moreover, doctors added that IVM has already helped over a 1,000 women become preg...

Smoking Women Less Receptive To IVF Treatment

Cigarette smoking affects female fertility is a long known fact. Menopause too sets in earlier in heavy smokers.// Recently ,a study was conducted to compare IVF outcomes in smoking women. It was found that women who smoked less had a better chance of conceiving than women who smoked more t...

NHS duped by Foreigners? IVF treatments Drain NHS Finances

New figures have established the magnitude of financial drain on the NHS; Foreigners, have milked the NHS by availing treatments// in UK hospitals worth millions of pounds, for which they have not paid for. The ones who have played truant are mostly couples availing IVF treatment and have vanished ...

Free IVF Treatment Could Prove Beneficial to the Society And Its Economy

A new research was conducted by Professor William Ledger, a fertility expert at the University of Sheffield who studied the average cost of producing //a baby through in-vitro fertilisation and the benefit to the government over the person's lifetime. The study states that the benefits of providing...

British Government to Provide Free IVF Treatment

According to a study it was found that free fertility treatment would result in long term benefits to the economy and society //. A child born by IVF is more advantageous and would repay the cost quickly than a child conceived naturally. The IVF baby is estimated to begin the repaying process after...

Lack Of Sperm Donors - Scottish IVF Clinic Closed

Due to reduced number of sperm donors nationally, the Scottish IVF clinic at the Aberdeen Maternity Hospital has been forced to say ‘no’ to its new patients//. Patient enrolled in the fertility treatment at Scotland has been plunged into crisis because government has said patients treated hal...

Woman Was "Physically Sick" After Being Apprised Of IVF Clinic's Blunder

A white couple has revealed how a mistake at an IVF clinic almost destroyed their lives. In an interview to The Sun, the couple spoke of the emotional trauma// that they had to undergo when they came to know that the woman's eggs had been impregnated with an Asian man's sperm. The couple had ...

Placenta Praevia Associated With IVF Pregnancy

According to a Norwegian research it was found that Invitro Fertilization (IVF) resulted in an increase of complication during pregnancy. According to the statistics it is found// that the complication risk is about 16 in 1,000 pregnancies in women who have IFV. Placenta praevia is the common compl...

Women With Breast Cancer Can Now USE IVF To Spare Their Daughters

Women with a family history of breast cancer could be allowed to use IVF to have children free of the disease. These new proposals that is due to be discussed by the government's fertility watchdog tomorrow for approval. // WOMEN with inherited forms of breast cancer will be allowed to select embry...

Murdered Nurse Was Having IVF Treatment

According to a friend who was a colleague of the murdered nurse, Cheryl Moss said that she was having IVF treatment before she was tragically killed. //When speaking to the press outside the St George's Hospital in Hornchurch, Essex. Carly Waite worked with Cheryl on the Canvey ward. She said ...

Complication More in Women Having IVF Treatment

A report on IVF has emphasized that women having IVF treatment subject themselves to more risks and complications from the hormonal treatment to conceive a baby.// In-Vitro fertilization (IVF) has been very successful in women who are infertile due to problems with their eggs or tubes. In the ...

Embryonic Genetic Testing Is Boosting IVF Pregnancies

Embryonic genetic testing is boosting the success rate of IVF pregnancies. However, the capacity to screen for non-life threatening illnesses and to create babies with specific tissue types or physical attributes also raises difficult ethical issues//. Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, or PGD,...

A first for India - IVF baby born of surrogacy

India's first surrogate in vitro fertilization (IVF) baby of a single parent has been born in a city clinic, raising questions about the newborn's legal status and the single father's parenthood rights. // Amit Banerjee, whose childless marriage had ended in divorce years ago, is apparently t...

Obesity raises IVF miscarriage risk

Obese women are far more likely to miscarrry after IVF treatment- but losing even a few kilos could make a huge difference, say doctors. They are urging overweight women to change their diets, and take excercise, prior to embarking on fertilty treatments. Obese women have long been known to h...

More is not Merry! Proposal to Ration Embryo to Women having IVF

The fertility caretaker must get its act together to check the perilous trend of twin and triplet births. A recent proposal to the department has suggested a cap on the// embryo, allowing only one embryo at a time. An expert panel set in motion by the Human Fertilization and Embryology Author...

More Parents Want Twins Through IVF

A study presented at the 22nd annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Prague, has found that many parents //are comfortable with the thought of having twins via in vitro fertilization. However the Iowa researchers found that they were often not aware ...

HFEA Issues Warning On Risks Of Multiple Births With IVF

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) believe that the current rate of multiple births of 1 in every 4 IVF births being multiple is too high//. The fertility watchdog of UK now warn British couples who are or wish to undergo IVF treatment that they could have a high risk of giving...

Research Shows That Quality Not Age As The Most Important Factor In IVF

A new research has shown promising development for women in their late 30’s wanting to undergo In-vitro fertilization (IVF). //The researchers state that for women over 35 years undergoing IVF could be done so with a single embryo without affecting their chances of conception. They also state that ...

High Levels Of Folic Acid May Increase The Chances Of Twins After IVF

Researchers at the Rowett Research Institute and Aberdeen University in Scotland found that women with high levels of folic acid were more likely to have twins// following in vitro fertilization. They found that the supplement might be linked to higher rates of multiple births after fertility treat...

Risk Of Birth Defects Slightly Increased Due To IVF

The risk of cardiovascular, muscular and skeletal defects is slightly higher in babies born through assisted reproductive techniques such as in vitro fertilization (IVF) // when compared to those conceived through natural means (6.2% Vs 4.4%). The above finding would be valuable in the United...

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