{"id":100529,"date":"2017-04-30T21:23:52","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T01:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=100529"},"modified":"2017-04-30T21:23:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T01:23:52","slug":"1-m-babies-born-in-u-s-using-ivf-or-other-assisted-reproductive-technologies-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/30\/1-m-babies-born-in-u-s-using-ivf-or-other-assisted-reproductive-technologies-report\/","title":{"rendered":"1-M babies born in U.S. using IVF or other assisted reproductive technologies: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_100530\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100530\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2396559684_9f0089f5ff_z-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-100530\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2396559684_9f0089f5ff_z-1.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Fewer embryos transferred leads to lower incidence of multiple birth: 80.5 percent of babies born from 2015 cycles were singletons; 19.1 percent twins; and fewer than one-half of one percent were triplets (or higher order),&quot; the report said.  (Photo: sabianmaggy\/ Flickr)\" width=\"640\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2396559684_9f0089f5ff_z-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2396559684_9f0089f5ff_z-1-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-100530\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Fewer embryos transferred leads to lower incidence of multiple birth: 80.5 percent of babies born from 2015 cycles were singletons; 19.1 percent twins; and fewer than one-half of one percent were triplets (or higher order),&#8221; the report said. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/40765798@N00\">sabianmaggy\/ Flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WASHINGTON\u2013At least one million babies have been born in the United States using in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and other assisted reproductive technologies, a new report has found.<\/p>\n<p>The latest report was released this week by the U.S. Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART), which started to collect data on assisted reproductive technologies (ART) in 1985.<\/p>\n<p>For 2015, SART&#8217;s 371 member clinics, which represent more than 90 percent of the infertility clinics in the country, reported that they performed 213,004 treatment cycles, resulting in the birth of 67,818 babies.<\/p>\n<p>Positive trends in treatment and outcomes continued in 2015, with 34.5 percent of procedures transferring a single embryo, compared to 27.2 percent in 2014, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fewer embryos transferred leads to lower incidence of multiple birth: 80.5 percent of babies born from 2015 cycles were singletons; 19.1 percent twins; and fewer than one-half of one percent were triplets (or higher order),&#8221; the report said.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, with improvements in egg cryopreservation techniques, the use of frozen donor eggs has increased.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, 2,886 recipient cycle starts used frozen donor eggs, and this number rose to 3,215 in 2015, it said.<\/p>\n<p>IVF was introduced in the United States in 1981, and according to SART, about one in every 100 babies born in the country was conceived using IVF and related treatments.<\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s first IVF baby, Louise Brown, was born in Britain in 1978.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u2013At least one million babies have been born in the United States using in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and other assisted reproductive &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":100530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[2088,18542],"class_list":["post-100529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-babies","tag-ivf","mauthors-xinhua-via-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}