World Egg Bank Launches Medical Tourism Program With World's Largest Egg-Donation Fertility Clinic

World Egg Bank Launches Medical Tourism Program With World's Largest
Egg-Donation Fertility Clinic
American IVF patients can now travel abroad at comparable costs to domestic
treatment

PHOENIX, Nov. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- The World Egg Bank (TWEB), an international
agency for the donation of human eggs to infertile women, announced a
first-of-its-kind partnership with a European fertility clinic to provide
American women with in vitro fertilization (IVF) of donated frozen eggs at or
less than the cost of staying home for such treatment.

The exclusive partnership is between TWEB and IVI in Alicante, Spain, the
world's largest IVF center for frozen donated eggs. It boasts one of Europe's
highest success rates and maintains 18 clinics throughout the world.

Egg donation treatment at IVI will cost the same or less than an IVF cycle in
America using fresh donor eggs, and about the same as one using frozen donated
eggs - including the cost of a vacation in Spain.

"This provides not just an economic alternative for American patients," said
Diana Thomas, president and CEO of TWEB, "but is also well suited to intended
parents who enjoy foreign travel."

Now a common solution for infertile women who wish to bear children, egg
donation can be accomplished with fresh donated eggs, which requires both
donor and recipient to coordinate carefully timed procedures in the same city.
Frozen eggs, however, can be shipped nationally or internationally and thawed
for transfer.

In contrast to American fertility clinics, approximately two-thirds of IVI
patients use frozen donated eggs. In contrast, egg freezing accounts for a
fraction of American IVF cycles and is still considered experimental by some
fertility specialists.

TWEB maintains one of the world's largest egg donor registries, with donor
biographies online. More about IVI is available at http://ivi.net/en and
http://www.theworldeggbank.com/tweb2/IVI/AboutIVI.aspx

About The World Egg Bank
TWEB was formed in February 2009 as a merger of two companies, X and Y
Consulting Inc., an egg donation agency founded in 1996 by Diana Thomas, and
Cryo Eggs International, founded in 2004 as the first commercial source of
frozen human eggs in the world. In 2005, the first child born of a frozen egg
bank was born under the care of two of TWEB's doctors and founders. TWEB's
scientific team includes Dr. Jeffrey Boldt and Dr. Michael Tucker, the two
scientists that pioneered egg cryopreservation technology.

SOURCE The World Egg Bank

Bonnie Schwab of Vanguard Communications, 1-877-382-2999,
bschwab@vanguardcommunications.net, for The World Egg Bank