Assisted Reproductive Technology

Women with gestational diabetes or gestational thyroid disease are more likely to give birth to a child with congenital hypothyroidism than women without either condition, according to study data.

Newborns in the NICU conceived naturally and through assisted reproductive technology had similar types of genetic diagnoses and incidence of de novo genetic variants, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.

Same-sex couples undergoing assisted reproductive technology experienced more favorable or similar birth outcomes vs. heterosexual couples, suggesting infertility-related factors contribute to higher adverse birth outcomes, data show.

NEW ORLEANS — People who became pregnant using assisted reproductive technologies were twice as likely to develop preeclampsia compared with traditional pregnancy, researchers reported at the American College of Cardiology Scientific Session.

Women who underwent assisted reproduction had a similar risk for developing multiple sclerosis as women who conceived without being exposed to assisted reproductive technology, according to a Danish register-based cohort study.

Researchers developed a prediction tool that may help to limit the number of surplus embryos created with IVF while maintaining the likelihood of live birth.

Among Healio Women’s Health & OB/GYN content, abortion-related articles were some of the most read content this year.

COVID-19 vaccination, regardless of type, was not associated with lower odds of pregnancy by artificial insemination by partner among couples in China, according to data published in JAMA Network Open.

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Although race and neighborhood deprivation were closely related, neighborhood deprivation was not associated with IVF outcomes, data presented here suggest.

ANAHEIM, Calif. — In this video exclusive, I. Glenn Cohen, JD, discusses the impact on reproductive technologies of the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dobbs overturning the federal Constitutional right to abortion.