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INFERTILITY: The Treatments, The Questions

                               Assisted reproductive technology has given hope to many infertile couples who want to have a child. Does it matter which method or procedure is chosen?                          A BABY BOOM THROUGH ASSISTED REPRODUCTION On July 25, 1978, a unique birth took place in Oldham, England, when a baby girl named Louise Joy Brown entered the world. Louise was history’s first test-tube baby. Nine months earlier, Louise had been conceived in a laboratory through a process called IN VITRO FERILIZATION [IVF]. By means of this procedure, an egg extracted from her mother was united with a sperm in a glass dish. Two and a half days later, after the egg cell had subdivided into eight microscopic cells, this little cluster of dividing cells was inserted into her mother’s uterus to develop normally. Louise’s birth opened up a whole new chapter in the treatment of infertility. IVF gave momentum to what is now known as ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOG