There are many problems which plague semen analysis today.Even though it's such a simple and inexpensive test , the truth is that it's is usually done extremely badly .This is true when it's done at the local lab, where the technician is untrained, and does not underst......

IVF treatment is surrounded by a lot of mystique because it appears to be a complex process that is expensive , because it involves a lot of injections and visits to the clinic .The reason for this is partly because of the uncertainty around how IVF is done , and what......

Because we know that fresh sperm increases the risk of HIV transmission, it's now normal practise all over the world to utilise only frozen sperm for donor insemination.Although this is also true for donor eggs, we continue to use fresh eggs from fresh donors. This is,......

    Most IVF clinics prefer to treat patients who are starting their first IVF cycle because they are the people with the best chances of becoming pregnant. Most clinics avoid treating patients who have previously failed an IVF cycle because the fact that they f......

One major problem with IVF today is the fact that the chances of an individual IVF cycle failing are always higher than that of its succeeding. What makes this so complex is that there are multiple reasons for IVF failure , and it's not easy to sort out what the reaso......

As an IVF specialist, I review the medical records of many patients who have failed IVF cycles in other clinics.The tragedy of Indian IVF is that the quality of care that most IVF clinics provide isn't good.This is because gynaecologists get zero exposure to the practi......

We all know that IVF doesn't have a 100% success rate.Because it's a biological system, there are many variables that will influence your chances of getting pregnant.There are some which you can't do much about . For example, if you are older and have poor ovarian rese......

Whenever IVF patients start bleeding , they start panicking , because they believe this sign means that their cycle has failed . The problem is that since there really is no reliable way finding out what is happening to the embryo after it has been transferred inside t......

Transferring one embryo at a time actually increases pregnancy ratesThis is a great example of how IVF patients can have their cake and eat it too , because transferring only one embryo at a time ( also known as SET or single embryo transfer) minimizes the risk of a mu......

Why do IVF clinics continue doing Day 3 embryo transfers when they know the pregnancy rate is much better with transferring blastocysts ?The commonest excuse IVF clinics trot out for doing Day 3 transfers for patients who have only a few eggs is that a bird in the hand......