Multiple births linked to drugs
Multiple births are increasingly the result of drugs given to women to make them produce eggs – not from using multiple embryos from IVF, or lab-dish fertilisation, new research shows.
More than one-third of twins and three-quarters of triplets and higher multiple births in the US are due to fertility treatments of all types, researchers from the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and Brown University have said in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine.
