Fargo North Dakota’s only clinic offering in vitro fertilization will have to stop the infertility treatment if voters approve an amendment next month.
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Utah Mom-to-Be’s Reaction When Sees Ultrasound for First Time is Priceless
Ashley and Tyson Gardner tried unsuccessfully for years to get pregnant. Finally, the Utah couple learned in July that their first in-vitro fertilization attempt was successful. But the real surprise came during the ultrasound, when they learned she was pregnant with quadruplets.
Hiring a Woman for Her Womb
People unable to bear children have increasingly turned to women who bear children for them, often by transferring an embryo created by in-vitro fertilization. Because legal and social views on surrogacy vary from nation to nation (and even state to state), prospective parents often engage surrogates in the United States and in developing countries. Controversy has clouded this issue.
Advances May Improve Success Rate for In-Vitro Fertilization
New techniques offer the possibility of improving a patient’s odds of having a baby through in-vitro fertilization.
Women Hoping To Become Pregnant Via IVF Should Make Sure Their Vitamin D Levels Are Up
For women struggling with infertility, assisted reproductive technology (ART), including the transfer of fertilized human eggs into a woman’s uterus, commonly referred to as in vitro fertilization (IVF), is often their final solution for becoming pregnant, but even this option does not guarantee 100 percent certainty. A team of Italian researchers has concluded a study suggesting that a deficiency of vitamin D, a steroid hormone that is naturally produced in the skin, may be standing between women undergoing IVF and a successful pregnancy.
Insurance Coverage for Fertility Treatments Varies Widely
As many people with fertility issues quickly learn — 7.4 million women used infertility services from 2006 to 2010 — few employers and insurers pay for many procedures, including in vitro fertilization. Though 65 percent of businesses with more than 500 employees will pay for an initial evaluation by a fertility specialist, just 27 percent cover in vitro fertilization, according to a 2013 study conducted by Mercer, a consulting firm. (That number was 23 percent in 2012.) Drug therapies were covered by 41 percent of large employers, according to the study.
Low Cost Fertility Treatment
In vitro fertilization, once seen as miraculous, is now mainstream in rich countries. Soon it may be cheap enough to help infertile people in poor places, too.
Three Ways to Cut the High Costs of Infertility
Medical bills for couples struggling to have a baby can mount quickly, particular if you’re pursuing higher tech procedures, such as in vitro fertilization. According to one recent study, the typical couple being treated for infertility spends about $5,300 out of pocket, while those undergoing IVF shell out roughly $19,200 for their first attempt and nearly $7,000 for each subsequent IVF cycle (several are often needed).
Future of Fertility Treatment: 7 Ways Baby-Making Could Change
More than three decades ago, researchers successfully combined sperm and egg in a lab dish to produce the first children born from in vitro fertilization (IVF), sometimes referred to as “test tube babies.” Although the technique seemed futuristic at the time, it has since become commonplace, and has now been used to conceive an estimated 5 million children worldwide.
The Brave New World of Three-Parent I.V.F.
In August 1996, at St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, N.J., a 39-year-old mechanical engineer from Pittsburgh named Maureen Ott became pregnant. Ott had been trying for almost seven years to conceive a child through in vitro fertilization.