The IVF Shopping List: To Tick or Not to Tick

[摘要] The field of reproductive medicine is recognisedfor its rapid innovations and advancedtechnologies, but also for its connection withlucrative medical industry and marketing. In vitrofertilisation (IVF) patients deal with multiplechallenges when facing fertility treatment whichhave a limited success and come at a huge cost. Inthis context, IVF centres offer, and patients ask for, aspectrum of unproven add-on interventions, called‘add-ons’, to increase the chances of a having alive birth.

[学科分类] 经济地理

[关键词] Add-ons;assisted hatching (AH);calcium ionophore;embryo glue;freeze all cycle;genetic testing;in vitro fertilisation (IVF);intracytoplasmic morphologic sperm injection (IMSI);intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI);intrauterine culture.