Family Law Prof Blog (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
While the legal profession continues pondering the appropriate limits of fertility treatment, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine has recently expelled Dr. Michael Kamrava—the doctor who implanted 6 embryos (2 of which split in utero) last year in 33-year-old Nadya...
The Human Future (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
IVF headlines this week only further advance my position that we should have never taken the embryo out of the womb. For example: It allows doctors like Michael Kamrava , of Octumom fame to be touted as "distinguished" and to be only given a slap on the hand for his recklessness in transferring six embryos (two twinned resulting in eight live births) into Nadya Suleman. Kamrava...
Bioethics.net (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
A spokesman for the professional group said Monday that Dr. Michael Kamrava exhibited a 'pattern of behavior that is detrimental to our field.' The group has also tightened implantation guidelines.
BioEdge (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
The Los Angeles doctor who treated "Octomom", Michael Kamrava, has been expelled from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) for a "pattern of behavior" detrimental to the work of his colleagues. In January, his patient, 33-year-old Nadya Suleman, gave birth to eight babies, giving her a family of 14 children. Around the world she was criticised for her irresponsible fecundity....
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
... had six other children, all conceived via IVF, prior to the pregnancy. She has said that physician Michael Kamrava of the West Coast IVF Clinic in Beverly Hills, Calif., transferred six embryos into her uterus. It is believed that two of those embryos split into identical twins, leading to the birth of eight infants.ASRM guidelines call for transferring one or two embryos to patients...
