The Alabama Supreme Court recently ruled that frozen embryos can be considered children under state law, raising concerns about how the decision could affect in vitro fertilization, commonly known as ...

Using a frozen embryo for in vitro fertilization may substantially raise the mother's risk for pregnancy complications related to high blood pressure, new research suggests. The study, published ...

Since fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilisation (IVF) began, there has been concern they could cause cancer. Concerns have included whether aspects of treatment – such as taking hormonal ...

The risk of being born with a major heart defect is 36% higher in babies who were conceived after assisted reproductive technology, such as in vitro fertilization (IVF), according to results of a very ...

More than 100,000 babies were born via in vitro fertilization, or IVF, in 2024, even as the U.S. fertility rate hit a ...

Fetal aneuploidy can lead to developmental abnormalities as well as implantation failure after in vitro fertilization. Preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy (PGT-A) is designed to minimize ...

A Long Island nurse is sharing a message of action in the face of a frightening genetic finding. She learned she was positive for the BRCA mutation, which increases the risk of cancers, but she took ...