Obstetrics & gynaecology

US home births continued steady increase in 2012: CDC

(HealthDay)—The percentage of U.S. women choosing to give birth at home or in a birthing center rather than a hospital has grown by 56 percent in less than a decade, according to a new government report.

Obstetrics & gynaecology

Fertility treatment babies set record in US

A new report finds that one or two of every 100 babies born in the United States now are conceived with advanced fertility help.

Obstetrics & gynaecology

IVF improving but fertility treatments keep multiple births high

Fertility technology in the United States has a huge influence on the frequency of twins, triplets, and other multiple births, according to new estimates published Dec. 5 in the New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Eli Y. ...

Obstetrics & gynaecology

Fertility doctors aim to lower rate of twin births

U.S. doctors are reporting an epidemic—of twins. Nearly half of all babies born with advanced fertility help are multiple births, new federal numbers show.

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