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Monday 15 September 2008
Source: Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine.
Natural fertility treatment has been found to be far more effective than IVF.
A study by the University of Utah looked at over 1000 fertility-challenged couples who used natural procreative technology treatment or NPT.
What they found is that 25% of them achieved a successful pregnancy, a success rate higher than average 18.4% for IVF.
The study also found that NPT also resulted in far fewer multiple births with only 4.6% of women becoming pregnant with more than one child compared with 34% rate among couples undergoing assisted reproductive technology including IVF.
The research is that much more significant because it is the first ever into the effectiveness of NPT to be published in a respected peer-reviewed medical journal.
Joseph Stanford from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City who lead the study hopes his research would help overcome the "current information deficit" surrounding NPT.
He told the Sunday Times that "many GPs and obstetricians are not aware of NPT because of a lack of published studies," and that "now physicians can inform themselves of this treatment approach and hopefully recommend it to their patients."
Another fertility expert Phil Boyle who works at a natural fertility clinic in Galway also hopes this research will help doctors refer patients to natural fertility centers because "for some couples, IVF does not work and NPT does."
NPT is also a much cheaper alternative to IVF, costing about 4 times less.
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