Oktay added if
fertility drugs are not as effective in stimulating egg production in the ovaries of patients who carry BRCA1 mutations, this establishes a link between infertility and the risk of getting breast or ovarian cancer.
Brianna Morrison, 24, who used
fertility drugs, gave birth just before midnight on Sunday in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
It's usually due to
fertility drugs. We're all pretty stunned by this."
MONTREAL -- The process of collecting immature eggs from unstimulated ovaries, and then maturing them in the lab before fertilizing them, known as in vitro maturation, may someday completely eliminate the need for
fertility drugs during in vitro fertilization.
Although
fertility drugs can be prescribed by GPs, getting the dose right is not easy.
But as the woman is said to have sought fertility treatment after two miscarriages, it seems likely that the multiple pregnancy is the result of
fertility drugs.
Fertility drugs have been in use for more than 30 years and have been taken as part of IVF treatment to help them have children.
Dr Bryan Carroll, deputy director of the zoo, said: "Being able to treat female gorillas with human
fertility drugs is potentially a very important breakthrough."
But this left the couple facing a cost of pounds 1,350 for a single cycle of IVF and
fertility drugs, as well as travel and accommodation expenses.
Conversely they were able to examine the effects of
fertility drugs independent of infertility by analyzing data on presumably fertile ovum donors and fertile women who were being treated because their husbands were infertile.
A nice marketing move but, before rushing out for
fertility drugs, remember that, in Britain, you've probably got a greater chance of winning the National Lottery than having quintuplets.
The Headrick sextuplets resulted from
fertility drugs used last summer.