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In vitro fertilisation (IVF) is a process of fertilisation in which an egg is combined with sperm in vitro ("in glass"). The process involves monitoring and stimulating a woman's ovulatory process, then removing an ovum or ova (egg or eggs) from her ovaries and enabling a man's sperm to fertilise them in a culture medium in a laboratory.
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An Alabama fertility clinic that paused IVF services expects to resume them now that state lawmakers have passed a bill to protect doctors and clinics that discard embryos as part of routine IVF ...
Founded in 1944 by a small group of fertility experts who met in Chicago, the initial name was the American Society for the Study of Sterility, changed in 1965 to American Fertility Society (AFS). The current name, American Society for Reproductive Medicine, was adopted in 1994. In 2018, ASRM created its own research institute.
A woman's fertility is affected by her age. The average age of a girl's first period is 12–13 (12.5 years in the United States, [4] 12.72 in Canada, [5] 12.9 in the UK [6]), but, in postmenarchal girls, about 80% of the cycles are anovulatory in the first year after menarche, 50% in the third and 10% in the sixth year. [7]
How Silicon Valley can respond to the Alabama ruling isn’t as clear; the fertility category is already the most crowded and mature in women’s health, from IVF to employer benefits to egg-freezing.
The Creighton Model FertilityCare System (Creighton Model, FertilityCare, CrMS) is a form of natural family planning which involves identifying the fertile period during a woman's menstrual cycle. The Creighton Model was developed by Thomas Hilgers, the founder and director of the Pope Paul VI Institute.
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