News: Multiple births

Updated: Jun 17/10

• Issues Related to Multifetal Reductions After Fertility Treatments (Mar 30/09. National Partnership for Women & Families)
• Health of IVF twins worse (May 23/09. BioEdge)

AUSTRALIA
• Australian mother adds twins to her two sets of quadruplets (Oct 19/09. BioNews 530)
• IVF costs increasing Australian multiple births (May 10/10. BioNews 557)

CANADA
• Both parents of twins get [employment insurance in Canada] (Sept 18/09. cbcnews.ca)
• Experts seek to slash multiple birth rate (By Tom Blackwell. National Post, Jun 9/10)

UK
• HFEA squeezes multiple birth limit to 20% (Feb 1/10. BioNews)
• The perils of cheap fertility drugs (Op-ed by Professor Bill Ledger. Apr 21/10. BBC News)

USA
• Birth of octuplets to mother of six prompts investigation of US fertility doctor (Feb 16/09. BioNews 495)
• Octomom's fertility doctor expelled from professional body (Oct 24/09. BioEdge)