Experts urge clinics and specialists to "carefully consider" offering IVF add-on treatments as they can be seen as "implicit endorsement of benefit" when there's little evidence most work.

Australian women trying to start a family through IVF are being offered optional extras with little or no evidence that they work, new research has found. A University of Melbourne-led study analyzed ...

For many patients, IVF is a stressful and overwhelming journey of ups and downs, involving lots of decisions about treatment options. Many IVF clinics offer optional extras or "add-ons" on top of ...

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Up to 90 per cent of IVF patients pay for ‘add-ons’, but a scathing review has found there is little to no evidence that many common extras — including steroids, plasma injections and acupuncture — ...

Most "add-on" treatments offered alongside in vitro fertilisation (IVF) are not proven to boost fertility and could be a costly waste of time, new research indicates. Experts warn that patients face ...