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IVF add-on treatments leave patients facing impossible choices
Original: How IVF ‘add-on’ treatments put patients in an impossible position
IVF clinics increasingly offer costly 'add-on' treatments—extras like genetic screening or immune therapies—that lack solid evidence of improving success rates. Desperate patients feel pressured to pay for them, fearing they may sacrifice their only chance of having a child if they decline. Critics argue the industry exploits this emotional vulnerability and is calling for better regulation and clearer, evidence-based counselling for fertility patients.
Why now: Growing concern that unproven, expensive fertility add-ons are being marketed to vulnerable patients
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- How IVF ‘add-on’ treatments put patients in an impossible position · Scientific American
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