Avoiding a multiple pregnancy during IVF seems easy: Just transfer a single embryo. Single-embryo transfer is associated with a lower pregnancy rate as well as a much reduced multiple pregnancy rate.

HONOLULU — A plastic cylinder not much bigger than a tampon that is loaded with in vitro fertilized embryos and inserted into the vagina for several days might one day replace the expensive incubators ...

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 ...

When you seek the help of a fertility specialist to conceive, your first step is to undergo diagnostic tests to understand your likelihood of success. This is followed by a comprehensive consultation ...

Staff at a UPMC lab in Penn Hills discovered a problem late last week, sending shock waves through a community of patients trying to grow their families. UPMC uses the impacted lab along Rodi Road to ...

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Karin Hammarberg is affiliated with Monash University, which is not connected with Monash IVF and the incident mentioned in the article. The news of a woman unknowingly giving birth to another patient ...

Implantation, one of the most poorly understood phases of early human development, occurs in the depths of the womb, at a time when embryos are microscopic, fragile, and well out of reach. Until ...

SPRINGFIELD — A year after selling its fertility practice, Baystate Health will close its Reproductive Biology Lab and has begun notifying in-vitro-fertilzation patients that they need to find other ...