WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Old-fashioned, common-sense advice to just relax may actually work to help some women get pregnant, doctors reported on Monday. For years women seeking to get pregnant have been advised by friends and family to stop stressing about it -- an idea that not all obstetricians and gynecologists have embraced. But research presented at a meeting of the American Society ...

Controversy over the birth of octuplets to a 33-year-old woman in California who underwent in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) has amplified calls for tougher regulations on assisted reproduction. When the eight babies were born in late January, the event was hailed as a heart-warming miracle. But as the world learned more about the mother, Nadya Suleman, and the role of health professionals ...

As the octuplets born to a California woman turned one week old, the coos and praise that surrounded their successful delivery turned into cries of anger from fertility experts and the public. The mother, identified as 33-year-old Nadya Suleman, reportedly had eight of her own previously frozen embryos implanted, despite already having six children under the age of eight, also ...