The fertility doctor for “Octomom” Nadya Suleman implanted too many embryos in yet another patient, resulting in the death of a fetus, the California state licensing board alleges. The Medical Board of California says that Dr Michael Kamrava acted negligently in implanting seven embryos in a 48-year-old woman, identified as “L.C.”

Four of these embryos became viable, but the woman lost one during pregnancy and gave birth to triplets, one of whom is profoundly developmentally delayed, the board said.

For a patient over 35, the US fertility industry recommends implanting only one or two embryos. However the medical board found that Kamrava "placed L.C. at great risk for high order gestation, which was confirmed by a quadruplet pregnancy that ended with catastrophic results".

The Beverly Hills doctor has been under investigation since Suleman gave birth to octuplets in January last year. He was expelled from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine last September.

Dr Kamrava faces another complaint – that he failed to refer another patient, H.L., for cancer screening, despite a history of cancer and her ovarian cysts. Allegedly he ruled out cancer on his own “rather than refer H.L. to a specialist for further evaluation”. In April 2009 she was diagnosed with cancer and had to have her ovaries, cervix, uterus and fallopian tubes removed. ~ AP, Jul 13