Fertility Clinics Vary on Embryo Disposal
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The nation's fertility clinics vary widely when it comes to how they perform one of the most delicate aspects of their jobs: disposing of unused frozen human embryos that were created to help infertile women become pregnant.
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Infertility treatment has come a long way since the first test-tube baby was born 26 years ago. When Louise Brown was born more than a quarter of a century ago the procedure was hailed as pioneering.
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A UK fertility centre starts offering cut-price IVF treatment for women who donate their eggs to research.
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NEW YORK  - Children born as a result of in vitro fertilization (IVF) appear to be slightly taller than naturally conceived children, investigators in New Zealand report.
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Going abroad for a sunshine break before trying for a baby may not be a good idea, fertility experts says.
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The biological clock matters even if a would-be mother uses special reproductive technology. The rate of successful pregnancies using laboratory fertility techniques drops from 37 percent to about 4 percent as women get older, a new study shows.
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All Alison Miller and Todd Parrish wanted was to become parents. But when a fertility clinic didn't preserve a healthy embryo they had hoped would one day become their child, they sued for wrongful death.
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A majority of couples with stored embryos from fertility treatments say they would be willing to donate unused embryos for stem cell research, says a doctor who surveyed patients.
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Children born as a result of in  vitro fertilization (IVF) appear to be slightly taller than  naturally conceived children, investigators in New Zealand  report.
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Screening embryos for chromosomal defects, a fast-growing practice aimed at helping older women to have a baby, in fact reduces the chance of a successful pregnancy, doctors reported here on Wednesday.
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Don't count on freezing eggs to offset a ticking biological clock just yet. So say new guidelines for fertility specialists that conclude the procedure remains highly experimental even though it is increasingly offered.
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Britain's most controversial fertility doctor is to be sued by patients treated at a clinic that was operating without a licence
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Babies conceived through fertility treatments have higher rates of birth defects, but the overall risk is so small that it should not keep couples from having children this way, doctors are reporting.
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NEW YORK  - Deep-freezing embryos has been  routine for some time, to give infertile couples reproduction  choices in various situations, but freezing unfertilized eggs  has proven difficult.
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Doctors performed a record number of abortions in England and Wales in 2003, with almost two percent of women aged 15 to 44 choosing to end a pregnancy, according to health ministry figures published in the British press.
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For more than 18 fruitless months, Regina and Dennis Joyner searched for an Asian woman willing to donate her eggs. They were on the waiting list at two Washington area fertility clinics. They placed an online classified ad, but the most promising response came from Africa. Finally, they gave up.
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Use of alternative therapies may damage a woman's chance of getting pregnant, research suggests.