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There may be nothing more heartbreaking than trying to have a baby and failing--except perhaps finally succeeding and then discovering that there's something wrong with your child. That's why so many infertile couples were upset last year by a study showing that babies born through in-vitro fertilization had an 8.6% chance of having major birth defects--twice the expected risk...
...million Estimated number of babies born after in-vitro fertilization since then...
...began to secrete the female hormone oestradiol after four weeks in the test-tube?a sign that they were maturing. Team leader Dr. Tal Biron-Shental from Meir Hospital in Kfar Saba, Israel, says her aim is to provide infertile women with a steady supply of donor eggs for in-vitro fertilization, but admits the technology is only in its earliest stages. It has, however, already produced baby mice...
...been 25 years--and a million births--since the arrival of Louise Joy Brown, the world's first test-tube baby, and you would think doctors would know by now if the procedure carried any extra risks. But only last year studies showed that babies conceived through in-vitro fertilization were more than twice as likely as naturally conceived babies to suffer major birth defects and nearly three times as likely to be born small, a significant risk factor for later cardiac and cognitive problems. It's doubtful either finding will deter many would-be parents who cannot conceive...
Assisted reproductive technology is one of the great medical success stories of the late 20th century. Thanks to fertility drugs, in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and a growing list of even more sophisticated techniques, tens of thousands of healthy babies are born each year that otherwise might never have been conceived. But the process is neither foolproof nor risk free. There are limits to what science can do for infertile couples, and the more doctors have to intervene with drugs, needles and surgery to get sperm to meet egg, the greater the chance that something will go wrong. Among the pitfalls...