Could New Potential Treatment Mean Safer IVF?

July 30, 2014

(Nursing Times) – “Dozen babies born using ‘safer’ IVF treatment,” reads today’s headline in The Independent. This headline was based on a new study providing proof of concept that the natural hormone kisspeptin-54 could be used to stimulate egg maturation in women requiring in vitro fertilisation (IVF). The modified IVF treatment on trial, which is hoped to be safer than standard IVF, led to 12 healthy babies being born from 53 women undergoing a single IVF treatment.