Assisted Reproductive Technology

First pregnancies reported using new device to administer hormones to IVF women

Published in Women's Health Weekly, August 22nd, 2002

Fear of needles and the discomfort of daily injections could soon be a thing of the past for women undergoing IVF treatment thanks to a new device which can administer hormones without a needle injection.

Dr. Stuart Lavery, a subspeciality fellow in reproductive medicine and surgery at the Hammersmith Hospital in London, U.K., told the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology conference in Vienna July 3, 2002, that a team at the hospital had achieved the first pregnancies using the needle-free device which is called a J-Tip.

To retrieve eggs from the ovary of a woman undergoing IVF treatment, doctors have to stimulate the ovaries to go...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2002-08-22)

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