Rockville, Maryland (PRWEB) October 01, 2014 Shady Grove Fertility has published its 22nd Annual IVF Program Report, a yearly compendium of practice milestones, discoveries, and outcomes. In 2013, Shady Grove Fertility performed its highest-ever number of in vitro fertilization (IVF) cycles in a single year, leading to a record number of babies born. Shady Grove Fertility determines success in accordance with the Fertility Clinic Success Rate Reporting Act of 1992. As many pregnancies do not result in a live birth, the parameters of success must be properly defined. Thus, we believe that the truest measure of success is the rate of live births per embryo transfer. In 2013, over 6,700 autologous IVF treatment cycles were performed at Shady Grove Fertilitys Rockville, MD; Towson, MD; and Chesterbrook, PA offices - including both fresh IVF treatment and frozen embryo transfers (FETs). These cycles ultimately resulted in a 50 percent pregnancy rate per embryo transfer when accounting for all age groups, with women under 35 seeing the highest outcomes with an overall delivery rate per embryo transfer of 41 percent. The patient outcomes in our IVF Program have also been enhanced by the significant improvement in cryopreservation of frozen embryos. Cryopreservation has been … Continue reading →

Fertility expert Lord Robert Winston blasted the NHS for ripping off childless couples while touring a Birmingham hospital on Wednesday. The scientist, renowned for his work in IVF, said the treatment should cost around 1,000 yet parents-in-waiting are being charged 5,000 to 6,000 per cycle. Speaking to the Birmingham Mail outside Birmingham Womens Hospital, in Edgbaston, the professor said: It is shocking that both the health service and private clinics are charging too much when it could be much cheaper and more effective. Success rates are not really improving by that much. We should be concentrating on academic medicine to improve more effective way of registering treatment. Its not fair that people have to re-mortgage their homes. The cost should be around 1,000, instead of the 5,000 to 6,000 it can end up costing. While visiting the hospital Lord Winston toured the clinic where Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) is carried out another one of his specialisms. PGD is where embryos are created by IVF and tested for conditions such as Cystic Fibrosis, B Thalassaemia or Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, so only healthy embryos are replaced. The Womens Hospital welcomed the first baby to be born after PGD at the end of … Continue reading →