Infertility treatment claims ‘ridiculous’

Claims that a breakthrough in infertility treatment can treble the chances of a successful birth have been dismissed as “ridiculous” by the vice-president of the Irish Fertility Society.

John Waterstone said the consensus among those attending the society’s AGM in Athlone this weekend was that the claims of a 300% improvement in birth rates on foot of the treatment were “utterly extravagant”.

“Nobody in the room, and the whole of the IVF society in Ireland is represented here, is saying that there will be a threefold increase,” said Dr Waterstone.