The American Society for Reproductive Medicine, one of the largest fertility organizations in the United States, offers non-legally enforceable recommended guidelines encouraging fertility clinics to ...

Monozygotic twinning itself after elective single embryo transfer is uncommon, occurring in no more than roughly 3% of cases.

As a practicing physician-scientist, Dr. Grifo has extensive experience in the treatment of couples with infertility. Since August 1995, Dr. Grifo has been the director of the division of reproductive ...

DENVER -- After 2017 guidelines recommended single embryo transfer in most situations, the multiple birth rate dropped by 58%, according to a large national registry study. Moreover, single embryo ...

One of the first documents patients sign when starting in vitro fertilization asks them to consider the very end of their treatment: What would they like to do with extra embryos, if they have any?

In IVF treatment, embryos are traditionally transferred in the uterus three days after fertilization. Due to improvements in laboratory techniques, this is now also possible after five days. It was ...

Fresh embryo transfer may be better than a freeze-all strategy for women who have a lower prognosis for in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment success, according to new data published in The BMJ.

As politicians and judges wrestle with the reality of IVF in a post-Roe world, they should consider what their laws and verdicts mean to families like mine. I didn’t tell most of my family or friends ...

As you age, your fertility slowly declines. By freezing eggs or embryos when you’re young (usually under the age of 40), you can preserve your eggs’ health and, through in vitro fertilization (IVF), ...

Scientists have succeeded in achieving the world's first pregnancy of a rhinoceros after an embryo transfer. The southern white rhino embryo was produced in vitro from collected egg cells and sperm ...

Pregnancies from in vitro fertilization using frozen embryos appear to be linked to an increased risk of complications related to high blood pressure, or hypertensive disorders, compared with when ...

A baby boy born last week to an Ohio couple developed from an embryo that had been frozen for more than 30 years in what is believed to be the longest storage time before a birth.In what's known as ...