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'Mild IVF' technique is better than intensive fertility injections, claim doctorsLast updated at 00:35am on 9th April 2008
 Laboratory: Preparation for the intensive IVF treatment The "mild IVF" technique, which involves fewer fertility-boosting jabs, is also safer, according to evidence to an international fertility conference in London this week. About 23 per cent of women given mild IVF in the study had a baby - less than the 29.6 per cent expected with conventional treatment.
But used routinely, mild IVF would cut costs by around a quarter for tens of thousands of women, making it easier for couples to afford IVF and increasing the number of women that could be treated on the NHS.
In conventional IVF, women would have more than 40 egg-boosting injections over a month.
But in the mild IVF study, Dr Shokichi Teramoto gave women at the Kato Ladies Clinic in Tokyo a short course of the fertility pill Clomid, followed by two or three days of hormonal jabs.
The injections, used to boost the production of eggs and time their release, have been linked to a host of health problems, making it preferable to use fewer of them.
They are linked to mood swings and bloating, and the potentially fatal ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS), in which ovaries are unable to cope with the extra eggs released.
There is even evidence to suggest they can damage a woman's eggs, as well as the fertility of the babies they help produce.
Data collected by the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology shows Britain's record on OHSS and other IVF complications is among the worst in Europe, with the rate four times lower in France and three times lower in Germany.
Dr Geeta Nargund, head of reproductive medicine at St George's Hospital in London, said mild IVF fits in with plans to limit most women to one embryo implanted at a time.
She said: "We are moving towards single embryo transfer in IVF, so fewer eggs need to be produced. This means we should use milder IVF rather than over-stimulating ovaries with high doses of drugs."
She added that links between Clomid and ovarian cancer meant it should be used for a limited period of time, and that further large-scale studies are needed before Clomid is routinely used in mild IVF treatment.
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