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New method may help predict IVF success: study
Just four factors can predict with 70 percent accuracy whether a woman will become pregnant through "test-tube" baby technology known as in vitro fertilization, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
In vitro fertilization, or IVF, is a costly treatment that aims to increase a woman's chances of becoming pregnant but in the United States it is successful only 18 to 45 percent of the time, according to the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology.
Dr. Mylene Yao of Stanford University in California said she hoped that with more testing the method might be useful to couples undergoing the expensive treatment.
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IVF Revolution
"Soon, IVF may be better than natural conception for many, perhaps most, couples, not just those who can't make babies the usual way", writes Helen Joyce. Your grandchildren may not be conceived the way you were ...
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