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...Elective single-embryo transfer is the better option under most scenarios," says Dr. Zdravka Veleva, one of the study's authors and a faculty member of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Finland's University of Oulu. The findings reflect what U.S. fertility doctors say they are increasingly seeing in their own practices. (Read "Building a Better Baby: A New In Vitro Test...
...study compared outcomes of treatments during two periods at the university's fertility clinic: between 1995 and 1999, when double-embryo transfer was used much more commonly than single-embryo transfer, which was performed for just 4.2% of cases; and between 2000 and 2004, when 46.2% of women opted for elective single-embryo transfer. (The increase in single-embryo transfers reflects, in part, changing attitudes in Europe toward using multiple embryos.) In both time periods, the study found, 90% of women delivered babies within their first four treatment cycles, regardless of how many embryos were implanted. That suggests there...
...Hannu Martikainen, the study's lead author and the chief physician at the University of Oulu Division of Infertility and Reproductive Endocrinology. "Now we have more and more experience, and we are doing more and more frozen cycles," he says. He points out the importance of not only transferring but also preserving each embryo on its own, which makes it possible to use frozen embryos one at a time rather than in bigger batches. "[If you transfer] three embryos in each cycle, you very soon don't have any good-quality embryos left," he says. (See the top 10 medical...
...concerned about the hazards of multiple births, which not only increase risks to mother and infant during pregnancy and delivery, but also raise the chances of later developmental problems for babies who are often born prematurely. Although other studies have also shown the benefits of using elective single-embryo transfer to reduce multiple births, and the technique has become standard in several European countries, there is elsewhere a persistent belief that fewer embryo transfers will yield fewer pregnancies. The idea that more is better is difficult to shake...
Tester takes off for a confirmation vote, and I head back to the old office to wait for the phone guys to come and transfer the numbers. As I look up at his old giant ceilings, I realize Tester made the right call. Being a Senator is a huge job with a big staff, and to get things done, you need cubicles and meeting rooms, not marble and courtyard views. Besides, the Inouye staffers wear Hawaiian shirts to work a lot. That's never going to stop being funny...