Infertility

Laura A.

Schieve of the National Center for Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, who wrote the editorial, noted that about 35 percent of U.S.

births in 2002 resulting from assisted reproduction technology "included twin or higher-order multiple gestations." In contrast, Ms.

Schieve said, "the incidence of multiple births after natural conception is less than 2 percent." But in the Belgian study, led by Dr.

Evangelos G.

Papanikolaou, a reproduction specialist at Vrije University in Brussels, the multiple-birth rate was equivalent: about 2 percent.

Of the 94 deliveries that resulted among study participants, just two involved twins, both of them identical pairs.

All women in the Belgian study received only one embryo.

Half got embryos that had been cultured for three days, a stage described as "cleavage-stage," while the other half got embryos cultured for five days, which are called "blastocyst-stage." The purpose of the research was to compare the rates of continued pregnancy and live delivery in women who received the older versus the younger embryos.

Transferring cleavage-stage embryos is far more common than implanting blastocyst-stage embryos.

"As compared with the cleavage-stage group, the blastocy...

As a consequence, it can take some time before an accurate diagnosis is sought, or made.

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In a statement issued on March 17, TMC said based on past track record, foreign patients were more likely to demand high-margin fertility treatment services.

“As such, revenue contribution from the expected 100 patients from Indonesia as agreed in the MoU is likely to be significant.” Electratour is granted the rights to promote TMC’s range of fertility treatment services at its own cost and expenses in central Java.

TMC chairman Datuk Dr Khalid Abdul Kadir said: “Indonesia was the first foreign market the group ventured into (in November 2003) and has emerged as one of the group’s success stories in expanding our services beyond the Malaysian market.

"Patients from Indonesia contributed almost a third of the group’s foreign revenue in 2005, becoming the largest contributor by a foreign country.

Indonesia is expected to be the top foreign revenue contributor in 2006.” Khalid said the group was setting its sights on promoting its fertility treatment services to other countries in the region.

He said it had undertaken trade promotion missions to the Philippines and China this year.

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