<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In Australia, a boom in vitro fertilization (IVF) and other assisted reproduction techniques prompted a heated debate in 2006 on whether government should subsidize the treatments.</p><p>In a government-funded study just published in the journal Human Reproduction, researchers from Australia explored policy options to ...

In vitro fertilization (IVF) is a process of assisted reproduction that offers infertile couples a chance to have a child who is biologically related to them.<br><br>With IVF, a man's sperm and the woman's egg are combined in a laboratory dish, where fertilization occurs. The embryo which forms is then put into ...

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study has found a higher rate of birth defects among babies conceived by assisted reproduction compared to babies conceived naturally.</p><p>In the study, almost 3 percent of infants conceived with assisted reproduction were diagnosed with a major birth defect, compared to less ...

<div id="subtitle">Dr. Frederick `Fred' Wirth Jr., physician for America's 1st test-tube baby, dies at 68</div><div><p>Dr. Frederick "Fred" Wirth Jr., the physician to America's first test-tube baby, has died, his family said Friday. He was 68.</p><p>Wirth died Monday ...