Latest Assisted reproductive technology Stories

To Celebrate its New Location, HRC Fertility is Offering a Temporary Special Price on IVF Treatments Oceanside, CA (PRWEB) August 05, 2012 My Gender Selection, and HRC Fertility, a clinic that specializes in fertility treatments and gender selection, has just opened a new location in Oceanside, California. In honor of the newest HRC facility, My Gender Selection is offering a temporary special price for in vitro fertilization (IVF). For a short time, IVF will be priced at $4,900 for...

SAN FRANCISCO EAST BAY, Calif., July 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Reproductive Science Center is proud to announce the Giving Hope Program for patients. The Giving Hope Program offers a 15 percent discount to patients with little or no insurance coverage and limited personal resources for out-of-pocket expenses. Fertility treatment procedures included in the program are a traditional in vitro fertilization cycle, a donor egg in vitro fertilization cycle, and a donor egg and gestational...

Freezing Embryos Through Vitrification Dramatically Improves IVF Outcomes ROCKVILLE, Md., July 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Shady Grove Fertility Center recently released in vitro fertilization (IVF) success rates for the year ending December 2011. The data is based on the pregnancy and delivery results of 4,489 fresh IVF cycles and 1,096 frozen embryo treatment cycles, making Shady Grove Fertility the largest IVF Center in the United States. (Logo:...

NEW YORK, July 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Fertility Association (The AFA) announced today the initiation of a program designed to reach men living with HIV who want to create a family. The good news is that these men, with proper treatment, can safely have biological children of their own. The educational outreach program, funded by a generous grant from Growing Generations and International Fertility Law Group, will launch at the International AIDS Conference in...

The Reproductive Science Center of New England, a fertility center based in Lexington, MA, has the highest rate of singleton births (79%) in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island according to data recently released by the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART). In vitro fertilization (IVF) outcomes indicate that RSC New England’s multiple birth rate (twins, triplets) in 2010 is 28% lower than the national average for all fertility clinics, and nearly 30% lower than...

Center for Bioethics and Culture draws attention to lack of regulation, exploitation dangers and death from egg donation in fertility industry abroad SAN RAMON, Calif., July 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- News is just breaking in India about Sushma Pandey, a 17-year-old young woman who died in 2010, two days after her third "egg donation." Her death is being attributed to the procedures used to extract eggs from healthy, desirable young females like Ms. Pandey. These eggs...

LOS ALTOS, Calif., July 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- If you and your spouse are trying to conceive but have been unsuccessful, you may be considering fertility treatment. But it can be hard to decide whether to undergo expensive yet potentially high-yield procedures, such as in vitro fertilization (IVF). To help you decide, Univfy Inc., based in Los Altos, Calif., introduces PreIVF, a personalized prognostic test for patients considering IVF for the first time. PreIVF is a test taken...

Women who drink five or more cups of coffee a day severely reduce their chance of success from IVF treatment. Indeed, Danish investigators who followed up almost 4000 IVF and ICSI patients described the adverse impact as "comparable to the detrimental effect of smoking". The study was presented today at the annual meeting of ESHRE by Dr Ulrik Schiøler Kesmodel from the Fertility Clinic of Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark. Results showed that the consumption of five or more cups of...

Women with a higher intake of dietary saturated fats have fewer mature oocytes available for collection in IVF, according to results of a study from the Harvard School of Public Health funded by the US National Institutes of Health. The study investigated the effect of dietary fat (classified as total, saturated, monounsaturated, polyunsaturated, omega 6, omega 3 and trans) on a range of preclinical and clinical outcomes in women having IVF. Results showed that the intake of saturated fat was...

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Imagine not being able to give birth naturally. That is the reality for 6 million women in the United States. Fortunately, assisted reproduction technologies (ART) are an option for these women. Since 1978, 5 million babies have been given the gift of life as a result of these technologies. This number (5 million) was based on the number of IVF (In vitro fertilization) and ICSI (Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection) treatment cycles recorded worldwide up to 2008 with...