No benefits for fertility treatments?

Saturday, August 9, 2008

There are two common treatments for fertility problems do not work study suggested.The guidelines recommended that the drug clomid and artificial insemination for couples who have trouble conceiving despite no known cause for their infertility. But trials of 580 women in Scotland found the treatments were no better than trying to get pregnant naturally, a report says. There is this third couple who struggle to get pregnant have unexplained infertility. It means, despite a battery of tests, doctors cannot find a reason why they struggle to conceive.
There are options listed by the National Institute of Clinical and Health Excellence (NICE) this include up to six cycles of unstimulated intrauterine insemination - where sperm is inserted directly into the woman's womb - and use of clomid (clomifene citrate), a drug which stimulates the ovaries. These treatments have both been offered for many years because doing nothing is an unpopular choice among patients, right? But until now there has been little rigorous testing of their effectiveness.

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