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The More Infertility Treatments The Less Your Chances?

That’s right you read that headline correctly according to a new study done by a few researchers at the University of California-San Francisco. Based on the infertility information that they gathered from 408 couples that made various infertility treatment attempts with varying degrees of success. The significant statistic that is being pointed out by most of the news media sources that I have seen this information is the stat that when infertile couples attempted the same fertility procedure multiple times that the odds of success decrease greatly with each attempt.

The Right To IVF In Quebec

It’s official in Quebec infertility is a disease that will be covered under the health care system there and the the government will start funding IVF procedures. This will make Quebec the mecca for health care coverage of in vitro fertilization in comparison to any where else in the world. This is pretty big news in the world of IVF and what is considered standard practice in the health care system of not covering ivf procedures.

Infertility Treatments And Computer Forcasted Odds

Would you change your decision to go forward with an IVF procedure or another infertility treatment if a computer program were to tell you that statistically the odds are against you? I thought this kind of question presented a good topic of discussion for this infertility blog and it’s not something I just randomly thought of either as there was recently an article online at the Bloomberg website that presents this very scenario as a possibility in the very near future.