In the past, NHS trusts have struggled to find the money to meet the IVF recommendations.
BBC: IVF should be given sooner and to older women, says NICE
In standard IVF, embryos are removed from the incubator once a day to be checked under the microscope.
Smoking not only reduces the effectiveness of IVF, but also doubles the risk of pregnancy loss.
But only about 350, 000 of them can afford the standard IVF treatment to conceive.
Last month, Warrington PCT in Cheshire also announced plans to suspend IVF treatment, to cut costs.
The Department of Health said all PCTs should be offering IVF treatment from next April.
All PCTs are supposed to offer at least one IVF cycle from April next year.
Infertility Network UK said there was also confusion over who was eligible for IVF.
Professor Craft believes if you are young -- under 33 -- he wouldn't suggest IVF.
Its latest figures showed 35% of IVF cycles now involved the transfer of just one embryo.
Long-term studies have shown that IVF children usually are as healthy as other children.
Dr Fragouli's team examined cumulus cells from 26 women undergoing genetic screening prior to IVF treatment.
He said few couples would choose to try IVF as a fast-track method of getting pregnant.
The twins would not be alive without their elderly mother's decision to undergo IVF.
People in Belgium are entitled to up to six cycles of IVF free of charge.
Dr Connolly also warned that IVF could become a victims of the economic turmoil in Europe.
More than 12, 000 babies were born in the UK in 2006 as a result of IVF.
Against the odds, I had my second child a year later, a daughter, Justine, without IVF assistance.
However, the decision about how much IVF is funded is taken locally by individual primary care trusts.
It is technically possible to obtain human embryonic stem cells from aborted foetuses and frozen IVF embryos.
Average success rates per cycle of IVF are approximately 25% , falling sharply after the age of 35.
This is the main reason IVF clinics push couples to fertilize and implant as many embryos as possible.
The development has been welcomed by Professor Peter Braude, an IVF specialist at Guys and St Thomas's hospital.
Carolyn and Sean tried on and off for 10 years to have another child before turning to IVF.
There is evidence, however, that IVF babies are at greater risk of birth defects than naturally conceived babies.
Such concern is understandable, given that here in the US, the IVF industry is notoriously unregulated as it is.
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The update still recommends women under 40 are offered three cycles of IVF.
BBC: IVF should be given sooner and to older women, says NICE
Around 25% of women who have one cycle of IVF treatment become pregnant.
If that didn't work after several attempts then IVF might be an option.
The failure rate of successfully bearing children to term via IVF remains high.
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