The Pregnancy Prescription presents a step-by-step strategy for helping couples resolve their infertility as quickly, safely, and cost-effectively as possible. The book's innovative, "success-oriented" approach calls for using only those diagnostic tests that can identify the stages in the reproductive process that appear most likely to be preventing the couple from conceiving and then employing the most appropriate, state-of-the-art techniques to bypass (rather than treat) those problems.

"I think this is a breakthrough publication about the advances in assisted reproductive technology...This is the first time, to my knowledge, that comparative costs have been detailed and the complex and ever-changing relationship to third-party payer for health care has been approached."
— Joseph J. Rovinsky, M.D., Director of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Sound Shore Medical Center of Westchester

The strategy described in The Pregnancy Prescription relies heavily on In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) as an early-stage diagnostic tool. When used in this manner, IVF can dramatically reduce the overall cost of infertility treatments.

Hugh D. Melnick is founder and director of one of the first independent, non-hospital-based infertility centers: Advanced Fertility Services in New York City. He is a leader in the field of infertility treatment and has helped thousands of couples conceive through the success-oriented approach. Dr. Melnick has specialized in infertility and reproductive endocrinology since 1974.

Nancy Intrator is a writer from Chappaqua, NY who specializes in health and family-related topics. Her work has appeared in national publications including American Health, Cosmopolitan, Working Mother, Yachting, The Christian Science Monitor and specialized publications targeted to the health care industry. As a past patient of Dr. Melnick, she successfully conceived using the success-oriented approach.