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TEL AVIV, Israel, Jun 21, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Women who watch clowns just after having in vitro fertilization almost double the chance of conception success, Israeli researchers have found.
Dr. Shevach Friedler at the Assaf Harofeh Medical Centre near Tel Aviv found women had a pregnancy rate of 35.5 percent compared with 19.3 percent among women on non-clown treatment, The Times of London reported.
Friedler has completed a course at the Jacques Lecoq school of mime and theater in Paris, and said he thought it would be interesting to see how much stress relief a clown could bring.
"My background is clowning and movement. I'm also a physician who works in IVF. I thought we could combine the two," he said.
The reproductive clown is a restaurant chef who doesn't wear a red nose, but tells jokes of a culinary nature and performs magic tricks to appeal to adult women, the report said.
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