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Dr. Howard Jones, whose work led to the country's first IVF baby, dies in Norfolk at 104

CBS News

31 July 2015

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Dr. Howard W. Jones, half of the husband-and-wife team whose pioneering medical work led to the birth of the first IVF baby in the United States, died Friday in Virginia. He was 104.

Jones' death was announced by Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS), where he and his wife, Dr. Georgeanna Jones, did their most famous work starting in 1978 -- after they reached the mandatory retirement age at their previous jobs at Johns Hopkins University.

The couple opened the nation's first clinic for in vitro fertilization at EVMS in Norfolk in 1979, the year after the world's first "test-tube baby," Louise Brown, was born in England.

In 1981, their clinic achieved success with the first IVF pregnancy in the U.S., and in December of that year, a healthy baby girl, Elizabeth Carr, was born.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/doctor-behind-first-u-s-ivf-baby-dr-howard-jones-dies-at-104/

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Date Added: 31 July 2015   Date Updated: 31 July 2015
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Anthonia Uwa   02 August 2015
RIP
He should be awarded a nobel (post humour). This man saved us from shame and lifted us from the curse of barrenness.


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