IVF cycles can be a roller coaster of high hopes and despair, with many cycles leading to emotional turmoil. Dr. Anjali, an infertility specialist, experienced a patient named Nicole Williams who had undergone six cycles of IVF in Sydney. Despite her husband's low spe......

IVF patients are getting increasingly sophisticated today, and because they understand that IVF doesn't have a 100% success rate, and are perfectly okay with accepting IVF failure. They know that it may take three or four IVF cycles before they get pregnant, but......

Most commercial IVF clinics are designed in order to maximize their revenue and not to optimize patient care. When they sign up for a new patient, they usually convince them to sign up for a three-cycle package. And it's quite easy for them to do this, because they're......

Most young women today are aware of the fact that they can freeze their eggs if they want to postpone childbearing. Frozen eggs don’t have a shelf-life, because all metabolic activity is suspended when they are frozen at -196 C in liquid nitrogen. They can use these f......

It is a common assumption that IVF clinics provide reliable semen analysis reports, but the reality is quite different. Many clinics deliberately misreport these analyses to increase their workload and revenue. This dishonest practice is particularly prevalent in sper......

One would expect that IVF clinics would be experts at testing sperm and would give reliable semen analysis reports, and this is something that patients and doctors rightly take for granted. But the reality is that IVF clinics deliberately misreport the semen analysis,......

In 1993, a couple from Chennai, Balagopal and Latika, visited a clinic in Mumbai. Balagopal had a zero sperm count and had tried homeopathy and Ayurveda, but their condition persisted. The couple flew to Mumbai to see Dr. Aniruddha, who examined Balagopal. He had a te......

Many IVF patients are extremely unhappy with the quality of care they receive during their IVF cycle because they were promised one thing when they signed up and paid the fees during the first consultation, but the reality was very different! They never get to see th......

I provide a free second opinion for patients who have failed IVF cycles in other clinics, and one of the things I ask them is to share photographs of their embryos. However, many doctors get upset and agitated when patients demand photos of their embryos. Here is w......

Sometimes IVF cycles get canceled because the man cannot produce a semen sample on demand at the time of the egg collection. This is often because he's very stressed out, and obviously masturbating in a hospital room or sometimes a hospital bathroom is not much fun,......