One of the UK's leading authorities on IVF treatment for infertile couples, Lord Winston, said that traditional IVF treatment has been raised why concern about your lack of results and high rates of demand. Now new studies have led to calls for additional examination of the subject.

"One of the main problems we face in healthcare is that IVF has become a massive commercial industry," he told the Guardian Hay Festival. " It is very easy to exploit people by the fact that they are desperate and you've got the technology they want, who can not work. "

Lord Winston colleagues in London was criticized especially hard. "Amazing sums of money are made through in vitro fertilization.'s Actually pretty depressing take that some IVF treatments in London are charged at 10 times the price charged in Melbourne, where there is excellent medicine, where IVF is just as successful, where they have comparable wages. So one has to wonder what has happened. What has happened, of course, is that the money is corrupting this whole technology. "

Then he turned his attention to humans Fertility and Embryology, saying: "The regulatory authority has made a steady job badly. Not prevent the exploitation of women, not couples get very good information, does not limit the number of unscientific treatments people have access to, does not prevent sex selection and all things other people do not like it because there are all sorts of ways to evade the law. "

This was reported in 2007. In August 2008, the British Medical Journal reports that two fertility treatments often recommended for couples without children are of little help. One of the treatments, the fertility drug Clomid, which was criticized by some particularly high as those involved in the proof.

Dr Simon Fishel, director of CARE Fertility, Nottingham, said this year that some of the approaches are often recommended were no more effective than having a romantic dinner and a bottle of wine.

The study reported in the BMJ involved 580 women divided into three comparable groups age, weight and partner's sperm count. 193 were to try to conceive naturally, 194 received clomiphene citrate, which include drugs such as Clomid, thinking to correct some forms of ovulatory dysfunction. And the final 193 were given a treatment called intrauterine insemination (IUI), which is to deliver sperm directly via the cervix.

The latter method had a success rate of 23 percent, compared with 17 percent for those who conceived naturally and 14 percent for the drug. Although IUI seems to have had the greatest success, was not significant enough to exclude other factors being responsible.

Treatments such as these are used to help hundreds of thousands of patients each year in the United Kingdom, where one in seven couples experience infertility, with around one third have problems where there are no obvious causes.

More recently a doctor's wife, Tina Richards, has written a book, Secrets Fertility, which expressed serious doubts in vitro fertilization "industry" and at the same time offering new hope to childless couples. She said that the vast majority of cases, fertility drugs and IVF treatment are unnecessary, and "may even hinder your chances of getting pregnant. "

Could this be another case where the official story and truth are worlds apart?

TTC 12/18/08 Clomid+Fourth IUI