An end to ultra-expensive rounds of IVF treatment? Doctors develop new way of producing higher quality eggs that knocks a quarter off the cost

A breakthrough fertility treatment for women who need IVF could produce fewer eggs of higher quality and at a lower cost, doctors have said.

Experts praised the new technique, known as minimal stimulation transfer, which involves women taking a ‘cheap but powerful’ drug alongside the hormone used in IVF to encourage ovarian stimulation.

The new IVF treatment developed in America, has women take another drug alongside the usual hormone, and could means big cost savings. File photo

According to the Sunday Telegraph, the new treatment was 27 per cent cheaper than normal IVF and offered a 25 per cent cheaper cost per live birth.

The research has been carried out by an American team from the Reproductive Associates of Delaware.

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The paper reports that 83 women of 137 with good prognosis were given the new treatment, taking clomiphene alongside the FSH hormone.

It could mean the NHS could provide more than one cycle of IVF treatment.

Dr Ronald Feinberg, from the group, said: ‘Clomiphene is a very under-appreciated drug when you look at the potency and power it can have in inducing a women’s production of her own FSH.

‘That generated in and of itself significant cost-savings.’

 Dr Ronald Feinberg, part of the American team from the Reproductive Associates of Delaware, who carried out the trial

 The savings could allow the NHS to provide more than one round of the treatment to those looking to become parentsIt could mean the NHS could provide more than one cycle of IVF treatment.

Dr Ronald Feinberg, from the group, said: ‘Clomiphene is a very under-appreciated drug when you look at the potency and power it can have in inducing a women’s production of her own FSH.

‘That generated in and of itself significant cost-savings.’

The savings could allow the NHS to provide more than one round of the treatment to those looking to become parents

In IVF, an egg is fertilised outside the womb and then implanted into the woman at the optimum stage in her cycle.

According to UK figures, the success rate of IVF for women under 35 is 32.3 per cent, going down to 5.1 per cent for women aged between 43 and 44.

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