USA: More young couples turn to IVF
(sz) [...] It used to be that young couples would try for years to conceive naturally before seeking fertility treatments. IVF was typically a last resort for infertile couples.
But more young couples are turning to IVF as one of their first options in treating infertility. Toma, who runs the Cary center, sees 130 new patients a month, he said.
“It has gone up year after year” since he opened the center in 1992, he said.
Of the roughly 62 million American women of reproductive age in 2002, 10 percent had had an infertility-related medical visit at some point, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC also reports that in 2005, 134,242 fertility treatments were performed across the county and resulted in 52,041 infants. Many of the treatments produced multiple births. more…
From: »The News&Observer«