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.

Researchers say they have developed a 3D imaging model of early-stage embryos that may make it easier for women to get pregnant through in vitro fertilization (IVF). About 2.5% of US births — nearly ...

The United Kingdom made headlines last summer when government officials there said they would allow three-parent IVF testing. Using this method, fertility specialists can replace damaged DNA in a ...

This could be egg-cellent news for women struggling with infertility. A research team from Japan says it has developed a new egg maturation technique that may improve in vitro fertilization (IVF) ...

This week, the Food and Drug Administration is meeting with a panel of experts to examine fertility methods that involve using the genetic material of three separate individuals. Critics worry that ...

Low birth rates have become a serious problem in many developed countries throughout the world, with Japan being a prime example. In Japan particularly, aging and stress have led to a massive rise in ...

Fertility awareness-based methods can be very helpful in detecting underlying issues like endometriosis or polycystic ovary syndrome, enabling women to seek treatment rather than merely masking ...

It has also become a big driver in the number of older single mothers in the U.S. at a time when the country's overall birth ...

Many women have been told they can only get pregnant using donor eggs. This is not true anymore. There is now hope for women with low ovarian reserve, poor egg quality, premature ovarian insufficiency ...

The use of time-lapse monitoring in IVF does not result in more pregnancies or shorten the time it takes to get pregnant. This new method, which promises to "identify the most viable embryos", is more ...

“We have been able to achieve the first rejuvenation of a human egg in vitro. What this means is we could reduce the fraction ...

URBANA, Ill. — The success of in vitro fertilization depends on many factors, one of which is sperm viability. A recent study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign documents a new way to ...