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BRITISH EXPERTS INVESTIGATE HEALTH OF IVF BABIES


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LONDON, October 23, 2002 (LSN.ca) - British health authorities have been asked to investigate problems among children conceived through artificial fertility methods, including a greater likelihood of birth defects.

Two studies published in The New England Journal of Medicine this year suggest that test-tube babies are more likely to be underweight and born with a major birth defect.

An estimated 1 million babies worldwide have been conceived through IVF since Louise Brown, the first test-tube baby, was born in 1978 after being transported, as an embyro, inside a rabbit before insertion into her mother's womb.

For two sample abstracts from the New England Journal of Medicine see:

"Low and Very Low Birth Weight in Infants Conceived with Use of Assisted
Reproductive Technology":
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/abstract/346/10/731?maxtoshow=&HITS=20&hits=...

and
"The Risk of Major Birth Defects after Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection
and in Vitro Fertilization":
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/abstract/346/10/725?maxtoshow=&HITS=20&hits=...

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