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The number of women having successful IVF treatment in the UK has topped 10,000 for the first time.
There were 10,242 births resulting in 12,596 babies during 2006, a 13 per cent rise on the number of births in the previous year, figures from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority have revealed.
They also showed that that Britain's most controversial fertility doctor, Mohammed Taranissi, continued to top the IVF league table.
His Assisted Reproduction and Gynaecology Centre (ARGC) in London achieved double the national average for live births following treatment.
Mr Taranissi's success rate for women under 35 was 61 per cent compared with 31 per cent nationally in 2006. The latest HFEA figures showed success rates have risen in every age group, with the highest overall rate of live births per treatment cycle so far up 1.5 per cent to 23.1 per cent in 2006.
In 1992, the first year the HFEA started collecting data, the live birth rate was 13 per cent.
The number of patients and the number of treatments being undertaken in the UK also rose...
There were 10,242 births resulting in 12,596 babies during 2006, a 13 per cent rise on the number of births in the previous year, figures from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority have revealed.
They also showed that that Britain's most controversial fertility doctor, Mohammed Taranissi, continued to top the IVF league table.
His Assisted Reproduction and Gynaecology Centre (ARGC) in London achieved double the national average for live births following treatment.
Mr Taranissi's success rate for women under 35 was 61 per cent compared with 31 per cent nationally in 2006. The latest HFEA figures showed success rates have risen in every age group, with the highest overall rate of live births per treatment cycle so far up 1.5 per cent to 23.1 per cent in 2006.
In 1992, the first year the HFEA started collecting data, the live birth rate was 13 per cent.
The number of patients and the number of treatments being undertaken in the UK also rose...