When it comes down to it, in vitro fertilization has two ingredients: a sperm and an egg. But it isn’t quite as easy as “one plus one equals embryo,” as there are several points in the process where ...

ABC News spent more than a year following four families on their IVF journey. Over 40 years ago, the world's first "test tube baby" was born. Louise Joy Brown's conception via in vitro fertilization ...

ST. LOUIS – The pandemic has couples rethinking what is important in life. For many, that means having a baby. New technology is dramatically increasing a woman’s chances of getting pregnant through ...

Heidi Collins Fantasia is an associate professor of nursing at University of Massachusetts, Lowell. Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade in June 2022 ended the federal right to abortion, legislative ...

There are many reasons why families choose to have children later –- work commitments, economic stability, resources, but the knock-on effect is that more and more couples are turning to IVF to help ...

A woman's risk of suffering one of the most common types of miscarriages can be predicted based on a specialized analysis of her genome, according to a Rutgers study. Scientists said this insight ...

Leigh Weingus is a New York-based freelance writer and former senior editor at HuffPost, Elite Daily and Mindbodygreen. Her work has been featured in Well+Good, Glamour, Parade, Bustle, NBC News and ...

In a recent story by National Geographic, doctors are saying that a new wave of AI-assisted IVF tools — some of which can identify hidden sperm, grade embryos and even automate the fertilization ...

Emma is a Policy Analyst in the Center for Technology and the Human Person at The Heritage Foundation. IVF in the U.S. relies on destruction of embryos, intentionally or not. Alabama’s supreme court ...

A doctor may prescribe the birth control pill (BCP) before starting in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment. It can help improve the effectiveness of the procedure by scheduling the optimal timing for ...