Fertility doctors get new guidelines on maximum number of embryos to transfer

June 5, 2013

No more than a single embryo should be transferred at a time in most younger women undergoing assisted-baby making, according to new guidelines for the nation’s for-profit fertility industry aimed at minimizing multiple births. But in a recommendation that has some bioethicists alarmed, the guidelines state that doctors can consider transferring up to four or five embryos in women 40 and older. (Montreal Gazette)