Some remarkable statistics from the just released 2021 preliminary SART #IVF outcomes statistics. I’ve (clumsily) screen-shot a mashup of IVF birth statistics for first transfer for women using their own eggs. The top line is all comers. The next line is using elective single embryo transfer (eSET) without PGT. The next is PGT but no eSET. At the bottom: cycles filtered for doing SET, and using PGT-A.

Here’s what happened: “You are a reproductive endocrinologist overseeing an IVF cycle. The patient is a 35-year-old female with tubal factor infertility. Sperm counts for her male partner are normal. Her AMH level is normal for her age group and thyroid and prolactin testing are all normal. She had undergone…

2022 was IVF software’s coming out party, the AI in IVF world tour. In New York, Boston, Chicago, Indian Wells, Milan, Dubrovnik, Anaheim — at home, at ESHRE, at ASRM, MRSi, PCRS and, most notably, at the first AI in Fertility meeting, a community of engaged, brilliant and committed people…

We’re up to ten million IVF babies in forty years — a great start. Now let’s get to a million babies a month. The need is there (in reality it’s higher), and many of the tools for expansion of assisted reproductive technology (ART) are already on the shelves, some at…

Pre ASRM 2022 IVF Innovation Notes, Part 2 It’s been quite a year, with a lot of highlights. One was the first meeting of the AI in Fertility conference in Croatia, a great opportunity for me to be the dumbest person in a room full of embryologists and data scientists, to listen and to learn (good life lesson…

The Four Guiding Principles For Democratizing IVF: Pre-ASRM 2022 Prep Notes From The Front Lines Of IVF Innovation Ah, October in New York: crisp air, colorful trees against a royal blue sky. Shorts and t-shirts on Monday; sweaters and sweats on Tuesday. Juilliard students busking in Riverside Park; packed subways heading uptown for the Penn-Columbia football game. Sorry, got carried away with that last one.

Abigail Sirus and David Sable MD July 31, 2022 Our previous whitepaper “A New Challenge for Fertility Patients? Modeling IVF Access Post Repeal of Roe v. Wade” modeled the potential impact of Roe’s repeal on women and couples undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment based on currently enacted legislation. Several…

Abigail Sirus and David Sable MD July 23, 2022 How will the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade affect women and couples undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF)? Will new restrictions on what can and cannot be performed in IVF reduce the procedure’s effectiveness or limit how clinics deliver care…

first draft dispatches from the battle for a billion babies It was hectic week in the battle for a billion babies: board meetings, term sheets, cap tables, some pretty eye-opening under-NDA data. …