by APFLI | Aug 14, 2015 | Artificial Conception
Since the first U.S. infant conceived with Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) was born in 1981, both the use of advanced technologies to overcome infertility and the number of fertility clinics providing ART services have increased steadily in the United States....
by APFLI | Oct 19, 2011 | Artificial Conception
NEW! Celebrate? Guess Again… Estimated 30 Million Human Lives Sacrificed for 5 Million ‘Test Tube Babies’ The 'Ovolution' of the Three-Parent Embryo Extra Embryos? One Family Offers Them on Craigslist Scientists to Apply for Licence to...
by APFLI | Feb 1, 2009 | Artificial Conception
Low birthweight (LBW) (<2,500 g) is an important cause of infant morbidity and mortality (1). The rate of LBW has been steadily increasing in the United States. In 2005, the most recent year for which data are available, LBW represented 8.2% of all births, the...
by APFLI | Jun 20, 2008 | Artificial Conception
TECHNOLOGICAL CONCEPTION ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY SURVEILLANCE — UNITED STATES, 2005. Assisted reproductive technology (ART) includes fertility treatments in which both eggs and sperm are handled in the laboratory (i.e., in vitro fertilization and...
by APFLI | Jun 9, 2005 | Artificial Conception
Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) Embryo Adoption ART – Of 4,021,726 total infants born in the USA in 2002, a total of 42,483 (1%) were conceived by ART. Infants conceived with ART accounted for 0.5% of singleton births and 17% of multiple births...
