40 years of IVF

In vitro fertilization, or IVF, has changed the lives of millions of couples since 1978. Before IVF, if a woman couldn't get pregnant her only option to have children was adoption. But then came Louise Brown, who was born July 25, 1978—40 years ago—in England. Known as the first test-tube baby, she was born because of IVF.

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