WHEN IVF treatment fails, should you call it quits or try again? This tough decision could become a little easier, say Prajna Banerjee at Stanford University School of Medicine in California and colleagues, who have developed a model that can better predict the likelihood that a second IVF treatment will succeed.
Doctors typically use the woman’s age as the main factor in predicting the likely outcome of IVF, but this can be unreliable. To improve on this method, Banerjee’s team used clinical and embryo data from over 1600 IVF patients to identify the most influential factors determining whether a live birth will be achieved the second…
