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Stanford University Medical Center
Stanford researchers find way to predict IVF success
July 17th, 2008
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have identified a method that can predict with 70 percent accuracy whether a woman undergoing in vitro fertilization treatment will become pregnant. This information may someday help the tens of thousands of couples who want to undergo IVF each year, and their doctors, decide on their course of action. The new method involves using four factors to determine a woman's chance of becoming pregnant from an IVF cycle. These variables may prove "critical in counseling patients, improving treatment, and ultimately in developing... more customized treatments," the authors wrote in a paper that will appear in the July 2...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-07-17)
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