In a recent study, “Use of nonmedical treatments by infertility patients” in the Journal of Reproductive Medicine, the majority (62%) of study participants indicated using some type of alternative therapy to complement their medical treatments. The researchers, physicians from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, developed the study “to discover the extent to which infertility patients use alternatives to traditional medical treatment and to identify factors that may promote patients to use them.” Abstract available at
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19691256?itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum&ordinalpos=4