比利时生育科医生研究推出了一种简化形式的试管婴儿,世界各地不孕的夫妇都能够负担得起。亨克市的研究人员说,使用该项技术治疗只需要不到300美元,目前他们已经用这项技术孕育出了12个健康的婴儿。詹姆斯·加拉格尔报道。
One of the main barriers to fertility treatment is the price. The Genk Institute for Fertility Technology tried to simplify the process to make it cheaper. They used bicarbonate of soda to replace expensive ways of controlling carbon dioxide levels around the embryo. The researchers' aim is to bring IVF to the developing world. Fertility doctors said the findings needed to be tested further, but that the implications of the study could be truly enormous.
高昂的价格是不孕症治疗的主要障碍之一。亨克生育技术研究所试图简化程序,以使其更便宜。他们使用小苏打代替成本昂贵的技术,来控制胚胎周围的二氧化碳浓度。研究人员的目的是为了将试管婴儿向发展中国家推广。生育科医生表示,研究结果还需要进一步进行测试,但这研究结果很可能带来巨大的影响力。
And the Brazilian government has announced plans to attract about 10, 000 doctors to poorly served areas of the country. Foreign doctors will be hired for the first time from September. Last month thousands of Brazilians took to the streets to protest against poor public services, corruption and other problems.