Predicting Success with in Vitro Fertilization

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Researchers say they can predict with 70% accuracy whether women who have IVF will get pregnant.

July 1, 2008 -- We've come a long way since the first "test tube" baby was born in 1978. Now, researchers are looking at how to predict whether women will become pregnant from in vitro fertilization.

Researchers led by Stanford University Medical Center assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology Mylene Yao, MD, found a 70% accuracy rate in predicting whether a woman who has undergone IVF will become pregnant

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