(Monday, July 14, 2014) " The financial incentives for doctors are wrong. Sometimes a doctor should be rewarded for not intervening !" http://www.ehfg.org/839.html If we pay surgeons for doing surgery, then why are we surprised that they respond rationally to these ec......

(Monday, July 14, 2014) When I review the medical records of patients who have done IVF in other clinics, I'm quite amazed by the amount of testing which they've undergone. A lot of these tests are extremely expensive and many are exotic; of un......

(Saterday, June 14, 2014) One of the newer options we can now offer older women is Tandem IVF – a unique combination of fresh IVF with their own eggs, along with frozen donor eggs as a backup plan in the same cycle. This allows them the flexibility of attempting......

(Friday, July 18, 2014) "The unmet need in developing countries is higher still. That is partly because people have less money, but also because infertility is more common. Genital mutilation, unsafe abortion and poorly attended births cause infections that leave......

(Wednesday, May 28, 2014) When patients find they need IVF Treatment, they expect that their doctor will refer them to the best possible IVF specialist, to maximize their chances of having a baby. This is why they ask their family physician or gynecologi......

(Thursday, May 29, 2014) Indian gynecologists seem to be extremely fond of making a diagnosis of genital TB at the drop of a hat! I saw an interesting patient today. She was completely confused, because she had been to many gynecologists, each of whom ha......

(Friday, May 30, 2014) Lots of IVF clinics routinely do a hysteroscopy prior to doing IVF. They justify this because they say it's important to have a normal uterine cavity in which to transfer the embryos, and that a hysteroscopy is the best technique available to e......

(Sunday, May 11, 2014) Mother's Day can be a bitter-sweet time for infertile couples. This is the day when society celebrates motherhood - the one dream which eludes infertile women ! It can be hard to see the bond between mothers and children being widely publicised......

(Sunday, May 11, 2014) It gladdens my heart when I see photos of our babies - and the families we have helped to create ! Am very glad that Indian infertile couples like Mr and Mrs Bhatia have the courage to be open and articulate about their experiences. This will go......

(Monday, May 12, 2014) In the past days, doctors were the sole experts in the medical field. They gathered knowledge from their fat medical books and their experienced professors. They underwent scores of exams to achieve the coveted medical degree which gave them au......