- November 21, 2016
Benefits of Expanded Carrier Screening
When it comes to carrier screening for single-gene disorders in prospective parents, the standard of care for decades has been to check carrier status for a limited set of disorders. Th...
Read More - November 18, 2016
More Males After Blastocyst-Stage Transfers
1 The study methods. In the study, 535 patients underwent IVF using their own eggs and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), using sperm from males with no severe male factor inferti...
Read More - November 18, 2016
Safe Healthy Pregnancies
1 . These are all high risk pregnancies with likely complications and health problems for mother and babies that are significantly reduced in singleton pregnancies. PFC has been a long-...
Read More - November 16, 2016
Expanding Access to Fertility Care through Private Foundation
Only 1 in 4 infertile couples in the U.S. can afford the fertility care they need to achieve pregnancy. Some even turn to crowdfunding to help close the spending gap. ASRM efforts. The ...
Read More - November 15, 2016
Impact of Low-Level Mosaicism
Preimplantation genetic screening (PGS) has improved pregnancy and birth outcomes for women undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF), especially in women at risk for an abnormal number o...
Read More - November 14, 2016
Analysis of Embryos Using Next Generation Sequencing
Mosaicism, an early error in cell division that results in two or more cell lines with different genetic makeup, is common in the early stages of development. High-resolution next gener...
Read More - November 11, 2016
Better Outcomes with Fresh or Frozen Transfers?
In a randomized controlled trial (RCT) at a private fertility center, researchers found basic parity in outcomes between fresh and frozen transfers. 1 Fresh or frozen transfers. Conduct...
Read More - November 10, 2016
Cost-Effectiveness of CCS + eSET
Fewer multiples after single embryo transfer and Comprehensive Chromosome Screening (CCS) is a clear benefit, but does it make IVF less cost-effective overall? Researchers from New Jers...
Read More - November 4, 2016
Most Have Success within 5 Years of Starting Fertility Treatment
A population-based study involving nearly 20,000 Danish women found that about 7 in 10 became pregnant and gave birth within 5 years of starting fertility treatment. Among the successfu...
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