Health Sense: Success rate elusive on frozen eggs

Saturday, August 14, 2010 - 11:42 in Biology & Nature

The chances of bringing home a baby after harvesting and preserving a woman's eggs remain unknown. Often eggs are never retrieved. Freezing eggs for non-medical reasons — in which a healthy woman harvests and preserves her eggs for later conception — is new enough that there are few reliable statistics on the success of the procedure. "Success" in such cases means a take-home...

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