WHILE fertility researchers continue to push the boundaries of what’s possible, doubts have been raised about the safety of one widely used treatment.
The largest and longest-running study of children born after in vitro fertilisation has found that 6.2 per cent of those conceived by intracytoplasmic sperm injection have malformations, compared with just 2.4 per cent of children conceived normally. In ICSI, a single sperm is injected directly into the egg. The treatment is offered to couples when a man has a low sperm count or a high level of abnormal sperm.
The study, in Belgium, Denmark, Greece, Sweden and…
