MORE than 90 per cent of women undergoing fertility treatments may be getting the wrong doses of the drugs used to stimulate their ovaries. As well as putting them at greater risk of side effects, the drugs may not work properly.
Women usually release one egg during each menstrual cycle, but during IVF, drugs are given to make them release more eggs, which are then collected surgically. Until recently, it was hard to work out the precise dose a woman needed. Now, Geoffrey Trew of Hammersmith Hospital in London and his colleagues have used a to tailor…
