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THE BATTAll
Study: Test-tube multiple births declinin
By Jeff Bonn
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BOSTON — A worrisome
national surge in multiple births
linked to test-tube technology
is easing, largely because doc
tors are implanting fewer
embryos during each attempt to
make a woman pregnant, a
study suggests.
Doctors routinely place sev
eral embryos in the womb at
once to improve the odds of pro
ducing a baby.
Technical advances and the
advent of professional guide
lines appear to have led to more
sparing use of embryos, the
study’s researchers reported in
Thursday’s New England
Journal of Medicine.
The findings are likely to
stoke the debate over whether
the government should put a cap
on the number of embryos that
can be used for each attempt.
"It’s so rapidly evolving that,
to put it in the hands of legisla
tion, is clearly to temper and limit
progress,” said Dr. Robert Rebar,
director of the American Society
for Reproductive Medicine. "The
guidelines are working.”
Researchers at Boston’s
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
analyzed federal data on in-vitro
fertilization cases in which
women had their own eggs fer
tilized with sperm in the labora
tory and then had them implant
ed. The technique accounts for
the vast majority of laboratory-
assisted fertility procedures.
The average number of
embryos implanted per attempt
dropped from four to three
between 1995 to 2001, the last
year of federal data. In the last
five of those years, triplets and
greater multiple pregnancies fell
from 11 percent to 7 percent of
all in-vitro pregnancies. The rate
of twins held steady among in-
vitro pregnancies, and actually
rose among all births in the gen
eral population.
Many doctors and parents-to-
be hope to avoid multiple births,
especially triplets or higher. Such
babies are often bom dangerous
ly premature and underweight.
Such pregnancies can also raise
the risk of bleeding, high blood
pressure and other complications
in mothers. In addition, children
from multiple births impose dif
ficult personal and financial bur
dens on families.
The 7-year-old voluntary
guidelines issued by fertility spe
cialists recommend two to five
embryos per in-vitro attempt.
In recent years, doctors have
been able to cut down the num
ber of embryos per attempt with
improved drug regimens for get
ting women to produce eggs,
more skillful methods of fertil-
ization, and better cultures for
growing embryos.
Even with the reduction in the
average number of embryos
used, the success rate for in-vitro
attempts rose from 20 percent to
27 percent from 1995 to 2001.
“It took a while, I think, for
physician practice to catch up
with the results of our own tech
niques. All of a sudden, it’s
working really, really well,” said
Pamela Madsen, director of the
parent-supporting American
Infertility Association. She is
mother of two single-birth chil
dren by in-vitro fertilization.
Many countries have limited
the number of embryos to two to
four per attempt. So far. the
United States has left the deci
sion up to doctors and parents.
The Boston researchers said
the findings show that the volun
tary guidelines are working and
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professional guidelines.
NEWS IN BRIEF
Bush endorses Israel’s retention of parts of
the West Bank in break from U.S. policy
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Thursday endorsed Israel’s plan to hold on to part of the West Bank in
any final peace settlement with the Palestinians. Bush also ruled out
Palestinian refugees returning to Israel, bringing strong criticism from
the Palestinians.
An elated Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said his plan to pull back
from parts of the West Bank and Gaza, hailed by Bush, would create "a
new and better reality for the state of Israel."
But Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia — with whom the Bush
administration deals while boycotting leader Yasser Arafat — called Bush
"the first president who has legitimized the (Israeli) settlements in
Palestinian territories.”
"We as Palestinians reject that," Qureia said.
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to party that toppled apartheid
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - An elderly woman wrappedr
colors of the governing African National Congress spoke for million:I
lined up Wednesday to vote in South Africa's third all-race national!
"The ANC held our hand and brought us through
Noluthando Nokwando, a 66-year-old woman from the squalid I
Town township of Khayelitsha. "We can give them a chance-an!
respect - for another five years."
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4—5 pmOpening Reception
Faculty Club, 11th Floor Ruddar Towar
speaker: Dr. James Anderson, the Vice President and Associate Provost
Cor Institutional Assessment and Diversity
international Oradtuata Studant Association
5—7 pm Emperor's Pot — Cultural Simulation
Rudder T o w m r 401
8am Houston Stata Univarslty, studant» on a Quant for Unity and Oivarsity
7:30 pm "Mr- & Mrs. Iyer
Evans Library, room 204 E
India Association and tba L.T. Jord
Movie
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Tuesday,. April 20
9 : 30-10 : 30 am The Ugly Truth - Art Display,
Movie, & Discussion
Library Annex 410
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Noon—1 pm Navajo Blues Performance
Rudder Fountain
Mr. blackhoraa Mitchell — Caribbean Studant Association
5:30—9pm Allies Advance
With pre-reg 1»tration only. For further information refer to the web site
7—8:30 pm Reflections of a Native American Author
on Literature and Cultural Integrity
Evans Library, room 204 E
Hr. Blaokhorsn Mlt.oh.il and Carlbb.an Scud.nc Anaoalaelon
Wednesday, April 21
11 am-l pm A Beautiful Mind: One Man's Struggle
with an Invisible Disability - Movie & Discussion
Evans Library, room 204 E
S.rvlc.s for stud.nt.with D1 a.t>l 11.1 l.a
3—5:30 pm Jim in Bold - Movie and Panel Discussion
Library Annex 410
Dr. Patrick Slattnry * sAPE (8tudnnts and Faculty for Equity in Education)
Thursday, April 22
11:30 am—1 pm The Fairer Sex — Movie and Discussion
Evans Library, room 204 E
women's Center and Multicultural Services
5-6:30 pm Race, the Power of an Illusion - Movie
and Moderated Discussion
Evans Library, room 204 E
Multicultural ftaxivicaf
7 pm The Holocaust Through the Soldier’s Eye:
A Tale of A Survivor
Rudder Tower 301
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5:30—7 pm Albatross
simulation
Evans Library, room 204 E
International Proqraci
Participatory role-playing
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Saturday, April 24
UniDiversity Celebration
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International Graduate Student Aaaociation
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