After struggling for eight years to have a baby, Shannon Petersen and her husband decided to try in vitro fertilization (IVF) in 2022. Their fertility doctor recommended a test that sounded like ...

Genetic testing on IVF embryos could help women over the age of 35 conceive sooner, a trial has found. Discovering defective embryos could help reduce the 'emotional toll' of repeated IVF cycles by ...

Mild cramping and spotting after an embryo transfer are common and don't always mean positive or negative outcomes. Stress doesn't impact IVF success, so it's okay to feel anxious during this waiting ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ellen Matloff covers genetic counseling, testing and digital health. The Alabama ruling states that embryos are children, with the ...

As Election Day approaches, there's a national spotlight on reproductive health care. This includes a medical process hopeful parents go through to grow their families called in vitro fertilization.

A test deployed in many fertility clinics to assess the viability of embryos for use in IVF is likely to overestimate the number of embryos with abnormalities, suggests a study published today. Using ...

During in vitro fertilisation (IVF), embryos undergo genetic testing before they are transferred to the uterus – but researchers have found that a widely used test cannot detect genetic abnormalities ...

In the wake of the Alabama Supreme Court decision establishing that frozen embryos can be considered children, some IVF clinics in that state have paused operations -- because discarding embryos is ...

When Kristia Rumbley, a mother of four living in the Birmingham area, first heard about the Alabama Supreme Court’s controversial ruling on frozen embryos, her first thought was of her own. Rumbley, ...

Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. After struggling for eight years to have a baby, Shannon Petersen and her husband decided to try in vitro fertilization (IVF) in ...