David H Barad

Hope is indispensable in reproductive medicine. It is also vulnerable to exploitation. Few areas of clinical practice expose patients more directly to the collision of hope and commerce than in-vitro fertilization (IVF).

Key words ovulation-trigger follicle-size rescue-in-vitro-maturation oocyte-maturity aging-ovary highly-individualized-egg-retrieval Get full text access Log in, subscribe or purchase for full access. Data availability Data will be made available on request. References 1. Cetinkaya, M.B. ∙ Siano, L.J. ∙ Benadiva, C. ... Reproductive outcome of women 43 years and beyond undergoing ART treatment with their own oocytes in two Connecticut university programs J Assist Reprod Genet. 2013; 30:673-678 2.

In their open-label, multicentre, randomised, non-inferiority trial of home-based ovulation monitoring in the management of frozen-thawed embryo transfers (FETs), Tjitske Zaat and colleagues showed their ability to organise national collaborative research efforts involving multiple fertility centres.1 In the accompanying Comment,2 Shari Mackens and Christophe Blockeel state that there is little in Zaat and colleagues’ study that warrants the consideration of home-based ovulation monitoring as...