• ryedaft@sh.itjust.works
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    12 days ago

    If you remember Octomom her doctor had been repeatedly criticized for transferring too many embryos in IVF. He was trying to optimise the “pregnancies per transfer” metric. Like a surgeon that doesn’t want to operate on sick people in case they die and mess up their statistics.

    Anyway, scroll down to Prevention in IVF to see some modern recommendations. There’s a neat little table and everything.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_birth

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      12 days ago

      Glad to see the science is evolving. What wonderful things legitimate research and the scientific method are!