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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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Transparency in IVF: Why We Share All Treatment Choices with Patients

In our clinic, we will often discuss the possible medical options in front of our patients with each other. Dr. Anjali and I will try to describe all the available choices because the truth is is there are no black-or-white answers to something as complicated as IVF.......

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The Dark Side of Fertility Clinics: Unmasking Ovarian PRP Scams

One of my patients with a low AMH level was asking me about the possibility of using ovarian PRP in order to improve her egg quality. When I explained to her that it was a scam, she countered by saying – When I search on the internet, I find that this is a treatment w......

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Your IVF Journey Starts Here: How to Find a Trustworthy IVF Clinic

If the world were perfect, then every IVF clinic would be as good as any other IVF clinic. You could take IVF treatment in the nearby local clinic, and be confident that you would get equally good medical care, even if you had traveled to New York or Mumbai. But the s......

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Semen Analysis and Sexual Performance: Unraveling the Myths

Many patients are still very confused about the relationship between their semen analysis and their sexual performance in bed. Men who feel their sexual ability is lacking, either because they can’t satisfy their wife, or because they compare themselves with the studs......

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