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UK Women Limited to One Embryo

Agency will ration IVF to stem problematic multiple births

By Sarah Seltzer, Newser User

Posted Apr 2, 2007 8:42 AM CDT

(Newser) – British women trying to get pregnant via In Vitro Fertilization will be limited to having one embryo implanted at a time, in a move by the government to stem the surge of problematic multiple births, the Guardian reports. Only women with particularly low chances of... Read full story »

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