Add-ons in IVF – Is it the elephant in the room?
Author: Dr Durga G Rao, Co-founder & Medical Director, Oasis Fertility The fertility industry is still in a nascent stage. With just 45 years since the first IVF baby in 1978, today we witness about 40-50% success rate. IVF is a very difficult decision for any couple as there is no clear-cut formula for IVF success and the couple has to go through a lot of ifs and buts, ups and downs physically, financially, and emotionally. It’s not like any other medical treatment wherein everyone in the process is quite sure of everything that will happen. On the one hand, …
Karyomapping – A Boon For PGD Patients
Hereditary or genetic issues (contingent upon their seriousness) can have an overwhelming mental, social and financial effect on whole families. Numerous families watch their friends and family bearing devastating conditions and lose any hope of needing to begin their very own family, inspired by a paranoid fear of passing on the quality of gene that influenced their family for ages. Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) is a treatment that includes isolation of cells from a developing embryo and testing the cells for the hereditary issue or genetic abnormality. The wide-spread use of this procedure is generally new and research in this …
How OASIS Helped Me Fight PCOS To Get Pregnant?
Being a woman, one of the conditions that we fear is PCOS or PCOD, short for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome or Disorder. And, I happened to be a victim of it. I was diagnosed with this condition when I visited my general physician due to highly irregular periods or no periods for a few months altogether. The doctor then explained my condition to me, saying that there are multiple cysts in my ovaries, which hinder the maturation of eggs; hence, ovulation does not take place. Because there was no ovulation, my estrogen, FSH, LH, and progesterone levels are altered. While progesterone …
Love and Intimacy during Infertility
Although infertility is not a permanent condition in most of the cases, it is a situation which creates a lot of physical and mental agony to both the partners. The inability to produce a child may even turn the mental stability upside down. …
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