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Couple Beats Medical Odds by Conceiving Two Sets of Identical Twins [VIDEO]
By not in system - AOL NewsA North Carolina couple has astonished the reproductive medical community by beating incredible odds and conceiving two sets of identical twins. ABC reported the story of Miranda and Josh Crawford of Charlotte, N.C., who became parents to a baby girl born in 2009 after one round of in-vitro fertilization. A year later, when Miranda was 33, they turned to IVF a second time. As in the first attempt, Miranda's doctors transferred just two embryos, considered the optimal number of embryos for a woman under 35 undergoing IVF. About six weeks later, after two ultrasounds, what the couple hoped ...
News Anchor Discusses Infertility in Hopes of Helping Others [VIDEO]
By not in system - AOL NewsAlisyn Camerota of "Fox and Friends" tried in vain for years to have a child. She tells the "Today" show that the experience made her determined to help other women struggling with the issue. The news anchor, now a mother of three, revealed that the only time she felt solace during her infertility battle were the times she spent with her support group. Research shows that women who take part in a support group have a 50 percent increased chance at conceiving. "Miracles do happen, and I'm living proof of that," Camerota said. "And maybe I can go and share my story with women who are at rock ...
Miracle Triplets Born 11 Years Apart
By Ben Muessig - AOL NewsEver wonder what you were like when you were growing up? Two 11-year-old sisters in England will have just that chance, thanks to the amazing birth of their newborn triplet who had been on ice since she was conceived more than a decade ago. When Adrian and Lisa Shepherd decided to start a family in 1998, they underwent in vitro fertilization at the Midland Fertility Clinic because Lisa suffered from fertility issues that made traditional conception difficult. Doctors obtained 24 eggs from the mother, 14 of which were successfully fertilized. Two of those embryos were then implanted in Lisa, ...
Infertility, IVF and Robert Edwards' Nobel Prize: A Thorny Issue Comes to the Fore
By Alison Fairbrother - Politics DailyOf this year's Nobel Prize winners, the work of British physiologist Robert G. Edwards waited longest to be recognized. His award for medicine comes 32 years after he figured out how to create the beginnings of human life outside the uterus through in vitro fertilization. I, for one, am still amazed that human life can be created inside the uterus, and feel that whoever figured out how to make that happen in a Petri dish probably deserves to be on the national currency. Even more astonishing, IVF is now fairly reliable and predictable -- low rates of complication and high rates of success, ...
IVF Pioneer Wins Nobel Prize in Medicine
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STOCKHOLM (Oct. 4) -- Robert Edwards of Britain won the 2010 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for developing in-vitro fertilization, a controversial breakthrough that ignited sharp criticism from religious leaders but helped millions of infertile couples in the last three decades have children. Edwards, an 85-year-old professor emeritus at the University of Cambridge, started working on IVF as early as the 1950s. He developed the technique - in which egg cells are removed from a woman, fertilized outside her body and then implanted into the womb - together with British gynecologist surgeon ...
In Vitro Fertilization Leads to More Baby Boys, Study Finds
By David Knowles - AOL News(Sept. 28) -- Test-tube babies are more likely to be boys, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of New South Wales reviewed the records of approximately 13,400 babies born in Australia and New Zealand since 2006 whose parents used in vitro fertilization and found that 56.1 percent of the children were boys. "When you convert that to sex ratio at birth, that's around 128 boys to 100 girls -- that's quite significant," Jishan Dean, a doctoral student who participated in the research, told the Australian Associated Press. The study, published in BJOG: An International ...
From Conception to Decrepitude, WomanUP Is Here to Guide You
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyDuring a temporary lull in our intense and ongoing abortion discussion, Lizzie Skurnick peeks at an HBO documentary, Google Baby, and focuses for a moment on the opposite side of the fertility spectrum as it has evolved in the four decades since a chemist discovered Clomid, and since Louise Brown came out of a test tube in 1978. In the latest 21st Century iteration of overcoming challenges to babymaking, couples in New York, Tokyo or London can create and ship zygotes (fertilized ova, for those not up on the lingo) to be gestated in wombs of economically less well off women in India for a ...
Next Frontier in Fertility: Womb Transplants
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyBonnie, in vitro fertilization isn't quite the last stand for women hoping for some help to conceive. Doctors in Britain have announced that they have figured out a process to transplant wombs that could result in healthy pregnancies -- and they estimate they could do their first successful transplant within two years. But, not everyone's excited about this development. "(Infertility) is not a fatal disease, and the suggestion that women could undergo major transplant surgery to fulfill their desire for a child may prompt unease," the BBC notes. Well, they've got that right. New fertility ...
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