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Why do IVF clinics promote PGD even though it does not help?

Many IVF clinics today are recommending to all their IVF patients that they do an embryo biopsy or PGD for all their embryos. They claim that this will increase the pregnancy rates, and reduce the miscarriage rates, but both these claims are completely false! The one......

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The 3 kinds of IVF Failure – and what you can do about them ?

Most patients who fail IVF feel very sorry for themselves. Though they spent all that time, money, and energy, the cycle failed and all their efforts went down the drain, and they didn't end up getting the baby that they wanted. It’s important not to get depressed, b......

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Why do we refuse to start a branch of our IVF clinic - or a chain of clinics?

Many people wonder why we don't have more IVF clinics, given the fact that we were one of India's first private IVF clinics, and have such a high success rate. Because we have so much experience and expertise, it would seem very logical that we would run a chain of IV......

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Unlocking the Truth: Risks and Benefits of Single vs. Multiple Embryo Transfers in IVF

We routinely see that many IVF clinics will transfer two, three, and even four embryos back into patients at the end of the IVF cycle. This is completely inappropriate because we all know that the best live birth rates are achieved by transferring a single embryo at a......

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The Hype vs. Reality: Understanding the Limits of IVF | Fertility Insights and Tips

It's great that IVF has been so successful in helping so many infertile couples to build their family and assisted reproductive technology ( ART) has changed the lives of many infertile couples. IVF allows us to do what wasn't possible even 50 years ago, and this is s......

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Kindness in Conception: Overcoming Regret on Your Fertility Journey

Many infertile couples start playing the woulda, coulda, shoulda game when they find they can’t have a baby in their bedroom. They start regretting the fact that they didn't get married earlier; or that they didn't start trying to have a baby when they were younger; o......

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Choosing Wisely: Your Essential Guide to Selecting the Best IVF Clinic

If the world were perfect then every IVF clinic would be as good as any other IVF clinic, and any patient could take IVF treatment in the nearby local clinic and be confident that they would get equally good medical care, irrespective of whether they chose to do it lo......

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Why do I criticize other IVF clinics?

Patients often get upset when I criticize the treatment they've received at their earlier IVF clinic. They can't understand why there is such a big difference between their doctor's opinion and mine. I'm fairly vocal about many unproven, untested treatments such as ER......

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The Surgical Sperm Retrieval Scam – When you should say no to TESE and PESA!

Many IVF doctors are now advising their patients to do a surgical sperm retrieval ( either a PESA – percutaneous epididymal sperm aspiration) or a TESE ( testicular sperm extraction) for doing their IVF/ ICSI treatment. Now this may sound like a mouthful, so let me sh......

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How IVF patients can protect themselves from IVF Scams – The Importance of Patient Education

The ingenuity and creativity of IVF specialists still continue to amaze me, by the new scams they come up with all the time, to extract more money from gullible, ignorant, desperate infertile couples! They dream up all kinds of “ new “ treatment options for their pat......

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