Infertility Caused by Pelvic Tuberculosis: An Easily Missed Diagnosis
Tuberculosis is caused by a bacterium known as mycobacterium tuberculosis. It is primarily an infectious process that involves the lungs it is capable of…
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Autism and Reproduction
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) encompasses a range of conditions that most commonly affect males and are characterized by lifelong neurodevelopmental derangements manifesting as deficiencies in…
IVF Failure and Implantation Dysfunction: The Role of Endometrial Thickness, Uterine Pasthology and Immunologic Factors
The considerable emotional, physical and financial burden associated with infertility treatment in general and with IVF in specific, demand that factors known to affect…
Ovarian Stimulation For Women with Diminished Ovarian Reserve (DOR) and in Older Women undergoing IVF
Two main factors determine the quality of a woman’s eggs at ovulation or egg retrieval. First is her age and second is the protocol…
Fertility Drugs for IVF: How safe are They and do They Cause Cancer?
Are unsuspecting infertile women at increased risk through the drugs and treatment they administered with fertility treatment? When it comes to fertility drugs (e.g.…
IVF following previous Tubal ligation is a Better Option than Surgical Reversal
There is a relatively high success rates following tubal re-connection (reanastomosisis) in cases of previous tubal ligation (a birth rate of +/- 50% within…
COMMERCIAL EGG BANKING FOR FERTILITY PRESERVATION (FP) AND A REPOSITORY FOR DONOR EGGS
For more than a thirty years, attempts by medical scientists to freeze and bank (cryobank) a woman’s eggs have yielded limited success. In fact,…
The Role of Gender Selection: The Pros and Cons
Couples have for centuries sought to influence the gender of their offspring. More than seven centuries ago the ancient Chinese developed a birth calendar…
The BCP: Does Launching a Cycle of Controlled Ovarian Stimulation (COS) Coming off the BCP Compromise Response?
One often hears the expressed opinion that the BCP suppresses response to ovarian stimulation. This is not the case, provided that the BCP is…
Intrauterine Insemination (IUI): Who needs it and who does not; Pros and Cons
“As physicians we really need to seriously rethink the basis upon which we recommend IUI!” -GS Intrauterine insemination (IUI), the injection of sperm into…
Unexplained IVF Failure 2
When confronted with “unexplained” IVF failures where morphologically good embryos were transferred, the question arises as to whether the problem is due to inherent…
Egg Freezing: Fertility Preservation (FP) & Commercial Donor Egg Banks
The bottom line is that because of the traumatic effect of freezing on egg viability and “competency” the statistical chance of each frozen/ thawed…
Advantages of Combining Preimplantation Genetic Sampling (PGS) with Tests for Immunologic Implantation Dysfunction (IID)
Whenever IVF fails to resolve reproductive failure, the explanation is almost invariably either: a) embryo “incompetence” (usually …although not always due to the embryo…
IVF: The Economic Realities
Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards were responsible for the birth of the world’s 1st IVF baby, Louise Brown, in 1978. Since then about 4…