LONDON, May 17, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- With the current trend towards personalised medicine, new software for doctors in a clinical setting will be available from 1st June 2010, to assess the odds of bringing home a healthy new life following in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment. Patients will provide the main inputs such as age, duration of infertility and number of desired embryos. The results will be a woman's Take-Home-Baby-Score. FORMYODDS.COM is a unique and novel concept based on 10 years worth of research by its inventor Dr. Christopher Jones that will help doctors and patients determine appropriate treatment choices.

New findings, shortly to be released to fertility clinics, show that an astounding number of women who start IVF will discontinue within the first year, probably due to the relatively high chance of failure and the high costs if not being treated on the NHS. Whereas almost 40% will take home a baby following their full course of IVF, almost half will drop out after only one or two cycles, says Jones, These women should be counselled and FORMYODDS.COM provides helpful guidance to all parties.

Jones continues, There are about 70 IVF clinics in the UK, servicing the needs of some 100,000 women and couples who present themselves for IVF treatment following one year of unsuccessful intercourse. However, my research shows that there is a patient population of some 750,000 women who need IVF but may be receiving treatments that are not as likely to work.

Unfortunately, in the UK the NHS now pays for up to two cycles but usually for single embryo transfers, this means that if the treatment hasn't been tailored to the couple's individual need it is less likely to be successful and they will have to get further treatment privately. A lot of UK couples can only afford options that don't work, says Professor Frank Schuller, President of the Centre for Science and Society at Oxford University. FORMYODDS.COM is, in Schuller's words, like a GPS that guides you on how to make babies without breaking the bank when the goal is a single, healthy baby.

Some women, experiencing failure with IVF the first time, may decide to try again some years later. This deferral is detrimental. Those few years of postponement may seriously shrink the odds of ever having the wanted baby.

SOURCE: FORMYODDS.COM

CONTACT: For further information contact: cjones@formyodds.com; Tanya vonAhlefeldt, +44(0)20-7861-3030