The fertility treatment developed by UNSW Sydney’s Professor Robert Gilchrist in conjunction with Belgian researchers offers a less invasive and cheaper alternative to IVF.
15,198 IVF babies were born in Australia and New Zealand in 2016/17, reflecting both the rise in number of cycles and an improvement in success rates over the last five years.
A review of 6 million pregnancies has found that pregnancies after assisted reproduction technologies, such as IVF, are at a higher risk of placental complications, compared to those following natural conception.