A new study says implanting three or more embryos during IVF increases health complications.
Women undergoing in-vitro fertilization should have only one or two embryos transferred during the process, depending on their age, says a study published Wednesday in the British medical journal The Lancet. Transferring three or more embryos during any IVF cycle should be avoided when possible, researchers say.
CNN's Jeffrey Toobin discusses the implications of the "personhood" amendment to the Mississippi state constitution.
In the Carpenter home, every meal begins with a prayer. Robin and his wife, Emily, are devout Christians. But they part ways with many other Christians over a measure that would expand the legal definition of human life.
Giuliana Rancic underwent a double lumpectomy on Tuesday as part of her breast cancer treatment, her husband Bill Rancic said Thursday on the Today show.
Giuliana Rancic said Monday that she has breast cancer, having discovered a tumor during a mammogram while undergoing another round of in-vitro fertilization in an effort to get pregnant.
Elizabeth Cohen, senior medical correspondent, discusses Giuliana Rancic's cancer diagnosis and the dangers of IVF.
After studying in the UK, Dr. Richard Ajayi returned to Nigeria in 1999 to set up the country's first IVF treatment clinic.
In-vitro fertilization is growing fast in Nigeria, a country where childlessness can be seen as a social failure, especially for women.
An official with the Vatican criticized the decision to award the Nobel prize for medicine to British doctor Robert G. Edwards for his work on in vitro fertilization, Italy's official news agency ANSA reported Tuesday.
Brendan Harley beat cancer once as an infant, then faced leukemia as a teen. He survived, but the illnesses left him infertile and feeling guilty.
The E! Host, who got pregnant with IVF, reveals how she and her husband dealt with the devastating loss
"It's stressful but I'm relaxing," says the singer, who's carrying twins. "I do almost nothing"
In a PEOPLE cover story, the singer speaks candidly about her grueling fertility treatments
Genetic screening techniques that allow parents to choose their children's gender are now more accurate than ever and are becoming increasingly mainstream, but experts are divided over whether the technology should be used in this way.
New technology can screen embryos for genetic disease, but, controversially, it also allows parents to choose their baby?s gender.
The doctor who implanted six embryos in octuplets' mother Nadya Suleman last year has been expelled from a fertility medical society, a spokesman for the group said.
The Spanish woman who gave birth to twins at 66 has died nearly three years later. CNN's Al Goodman reports.
The average American woman can live long enough to celebrate her 80th birthday, so if a woman is able to become pregnant using in vitro fertilization with a donor egg at 56, she could still watch her child grow into an adult. But just because it's possible, does that mean she should?
After years struggling with infertility, the George Lopez actress is over the moon about daughter Luna Marie
Twins? Triplets? Octuplets? Sounds like a lot of stress to handle more than one baby at once.
The tabloid-friendly tale of the California "Octomom" continues to stir debate -- this time 2,000 miles away in the Georgia state capitol, where lawmakers say they're trying to prevent a repeat.
As more details of the mother who gave birth to octuplets come to light, ethicists are debating the moral quandaries involved.
CNN's Joe Johns reports doctors say octuplets born to a California couple are doing well.
CNN's Carol Costello reports on single men opting to become parents via in vitro.
Jeff Walker says from as far back as he can remember, he always wanted to be a father.
A new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that infants born as a result of assisted reproductive technology, or ART -- such as in vitro fertilization and the use of donor eggs -- are two to four times more likely to be born with certain types of birth defects than infants conceived naturally. But, the study's lead author says, the overall risk is still relatively low.
Pamela Madsen knows a thing or two about getting pregnant. She did it twice, and it took several teams of doctors, six rounds of artificial insemination, six rounds of daily injected drugs, and four rounds of in-vitro fertilization.
It's a double dose of joy for the first-time parents, whose two girls are due this winter
A new study highlights four fertility measures that may better predict a couple's chances of conceiving through IVF
Dutch researchers are developing a blood test that could predict the onset of menopause and the decline of fertility
Whoever wins the White House, stem cell biotechs stand to reap the benefit from an incoming leader who is friendlier to stem cell researchers than President Bush, and that could lift stocks for the entire sector, experts say.
The stem-cell breakthrough doesn't make up for six years of hypocrisy and lost research
Think being an actress over 40 is a challenge? Try having a baby, says Helena Bonham Carter.
Before Kate and Gerry McCann became known as the parents of a missing 4-year-old girl named Madeleine, they were simply a pair of doctors with three kids: Madeleine and twins Amelie and Sean.
The McCanns launch a new ad campaign with the hope that it will help find their daughter. CNN's Emily Chang reports.
Time.com: Banking on Stem Cellsupdated: Tue Jun 05 2007 10:00:00
A California company now offers IVF patients the option of creating and storing their own stem cells
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that a British woman has no right to use frozen embryos to have a baby without the consent of the man who provided the sperm.
Matthew and Beth Mandolesi told their doctor that they would be happy with a boy or a girl but wondered if there was a way to increase the odds that it would be a boy.
Assisted reproduction, in least in Europe, may be moving closer to the era of one-at-a-time babies.
CNNMoney: Barcodes on babies?updated: Wed Mar 30 2005 12:04:00
LONDON (Reuters) - Sperm and eggs from couples trying for a test-tube baby could in future be barcoded to avoid emotionally devastating mix-ups, according to Britain's human fertility watchdog.
Just three days shy of her 57th birthday, Aleta St. James has given birth to twins.
A 57-year-old New Age mystic is pregnant and could tie the record for the oldest American to give birth to twins.
Last month, Susan Buchweitz recovered a million dollars in a settlement with a fertility clinic. Doctors at the clinic had mistakenly given her an embryo intended for another family.
An experimental fertility treatment transferring part of a woman's egg into another's raised hopes among millions of infertile Americans, but U.S. government concerns about the procedure's safety have forced those seeking it to travel to other countries.
Amber Low spent more than six years struggling to get pregnant, trying fertility drugs and surgery. In a desperate build-it-and-they-will-come hope, she and her husband, David, even constructed a h...
Amber Low spent more than six years struggling to get pregnant, trying fertility drugs and surgery. In a desperate build-it-and-they-will-come hope, she and her husband, David, even constructed a h...
LIKE ALL MY friends, I thought that when we started trying to have a baby it would just happen.'' So says Nancy Ameen today, four years after she and her husband, Toby Hoden, decided it was time to...
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