In Vitro Fertilization

NEW ORLEANS — Same-sex female couples initiated IVF about 8 months earlier in the year after, compared with the 3 years before, New York state required insurers to provide earlier access to nonheterosexual patients, a speaker said.

In the last post, I told the story of two brothers and made some observations about identical twins. It just so happened that the stories on identical twins kept coming.

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 with polycystic ovary syndrome have less increase in follicle-stimulating hormone after triptorelin administration during in vitro fertilization than women without PCOS, according to data from two studies.

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.

Despite state insurance mandates, racial and ethnic disparities in the use of IVF and its clinical outcomes remain, researchers reported.

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.

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Reducing the embryo warming time from 15 minutes to 1 minute had no significant affect on the pregnancy or implantation rate for patients undergoing frozen embryo transfer, data presented here showed.