IVF program has long been known to the public. This method adopted by many couples who struggle to get the child. From the study, published last month, revealed that the chance for pregnancy in women who do IVF programs will increase if they do acupuncture.

Women who do IVF (in vitro fertilization) may increase the chance of getting pregnant as many as 65% if they also have acupuncture, according to preliminary results of a study published in the British Medical Journal in February 2008.

IVF is more commonly known as IVF program is a technique in which egg cells are fertilized by sperm outside the womb and then put back into the womb. Approximately 10-15% of couples seeking fertility treatment because they have difficulty getting pregnant and IVF program is a common therapy chosen.

As many as 200,000 babies around the world through the IVF process in 2000. Because the cost of expensive, time-consuming and high stress in the process tube baby, now drugs and new technologies have been developed to improve the success rate.

A study conducted researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the VU University of Amsterdam motivated by historical acupuncture used in China for centuries to help the female reproductive system.

The researchers aim to find out whether acupuncture given with embryo transfer increases the success of pregnancy and childbirth in women who undergo IVF process.

In the study, Eric Manheimer, a research assistant University of Maryland Medicine, and the review team which involved 7 trials of 1366 women who undergo IVF program. This test is widely selection of women with varying ages, differences in the causes and duration of infertility.

Each test comparing acupuncture given with embryo transfer process with acupuncture or fake acupuncture was not done. Overall a good test results, according to researchers.

"The process of embryo transfer is supported by the provision of acupuncture seems to increase the likelihood of pregnancy as much as 65% compared fake acupuncture or no acupuncture done," Manheimer said.

In other words, of every 10 women who were treated, one additional pregnancy can be expected. However, a small proven benefits of acupuncture or no significant difference in the baseline test where the pregnancy rate was high.

"Acupuncture may be useful as adjunctive therapy in the IVF process," Manheimer said. "At any rate, required more study to prove these findings because it is still a preliminary result," said Manheimer.

There are many programs IVF patients who did acupuncture, in which some of them do so on the advice of a doctor, "said Dr. Owen K Davis, vice president and assistant professor at the Medical Center for Reproduction and Infertility, Weill Medical School, Cornell University, New York.

"Most of the initiative itself. Of course, anything that can help our patients is something that I expected," added Davis. But on the other hand this study flawed. According to Davis, a large randomized study is needed to answer this question.