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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Couples' chances of becoming pregnant with various forms of fertility treatment may start to fall after two or three tries with the same tactic, a new study suggests. The findings, reported in the journal Fertility and Sterility, may offer some guidance on a question under debate in the infertility treatment field: How many treatment cycles should ...

Ever worried about having an ugly baby? Fret not, a popular dating website exclusively for beautiful people has branched out to provide a fertility forum aimed at creating beautiful babies. Criticized by some as narcissism gone mad, the project was launched in June, shortly after BeautifulPeople.com booted out 5,000 people who gained weight and were deemed too ugly ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Frozen eggs can be just as effective as fresh eggs for women trying to become pregnant through egg donation, new research suggests. Women who were implanted with frozen eggs at a Spanish infertility clinic got pregnant at virtually the same rate as women implanted with fresh eggs, the researchers report in the journal Human Reproduction. Using ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study confirms that children conceived via infertility treatment may have a higher-than-average risk of cerebral palsy -- explained largely by their higher rates of multiple births and preterm delivery. The study, of nearly 590,000 children born in Denmark between 1995 and 2003, found that those conceived through assisted reproduction were about twice as likely ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Parents who conceive through in vitro fertilization (IVF) can rest easy - their children will be just as moody as other teenagers conceived "the old fashioned way" but no more so or less so. That's the conclusion of new research from the Netherlands. "This is a most important study, very well designed, and very reassuring," Dr ...

Google on Thursday improved health and family leave benefits for its US employees with same-sex domestic partners. The Internet titan began adjusting the pay of workers in such relationships to offset income tax paid on health insurance benefits extended to partners, according to Cynthia Yeung of the firm's strategic development team. The California company also put same-sex couples on ...

Children born after assisted reproduction face a significantly higher chance of having major birth defects, according to a study released Sunday. Parents contemplating assisted reproductive technology (ART) should be informed that such treatments carry increased risks, the researchers warned. The study, the largest of its kind to date, reviewed all the ART births in 33 registered clinics in France from ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Babies born to couples who had fertility treatment have a greater risk of birth abnormalities and doctors should be prepared to warn potential parents about these risks, French scientists said on Sunday. Clinical geneticist Geraldine Viot said couples considering undergoing assisted reproductive technology (ART) treatment should be told that the risk of birth defects is around twice that ...

South Korea's Constitutional Court has ruled that human embryos left over from fertility treatment are not life forms and can be used for research or destroyed, a court spokesman said Friday. In its ruling Thursday the court upheld an existing law allowing the use of leftover embryos for research. The law also allows fertility clinics to dispose of frozen ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - High-risk pregnancies are more likely in women who have difficulty getting pregnant, with or without help from hi-tech fertility treatments, new research finds. The risks should be considered during pregnancy care of "subfertile" women and when analyzing the potential hazards of fertility-assisting technologies, Australian researchers conclude in a report published in the journal Fertility and Sterility ...