Here is a small summary of the use of acupuncture for fertility issues from Acupuncture.com, October 2009. I was particularly struck by the comment on a study from the British Medical Journal showing nearly twice as many live births for IVF when...
Test tube baby techniques make many miracles. They also have horrific side effects and may leave you with some terrible choices. ... ...
Children conceived by IVF (in-vitro fertilisation) or sperm injection have twice the risk of being born with a major birth defect.
New evidence now confirms suspicions that babies resulting from in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) have more birth defects than ordinary babies.
Finally, there was the reader who is peri-menopausal at the age of 31. She's about to start a cycle of IVF, and she wondered if readers had any suggestions to help improve its chances of success. Her doctor has advised her to take 75mg aspirin daily.
Doctors treating infertility due to failure to ovulate should rely exclusively on IVF. ...
Doctors are beginning to fear that assisted conception techniques such as IVF (in-vitro fertilization) could be causing cancers, especially ovarian cancer, in women treated. ...
Several cases of children born from assisted conception developing tumours have come to light. ... ...
Women who conceive twins or triplets after fertility treatment may be at increased risk of producing children with cerebral palsy. ...
Recombinant DNA technology - or gene engineering - has progressed dramatically in the past decade to the point where it now represents 98 per cent of all fertility drugs prescribed in the US.