Dec 19, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Reading IVF literature from around the world, I am still intrigued that in many countries it is considered appropriate to routinely transfer multple embryos in IVF cycles. This includes the view by many clinicians that twins are “acceptable”. Now twins can be very...
Nov 12, 2010 | Infertility, IVF |
One of the commonest statements I hear about so-called natural therapies is they don’t do any harm. Many people have a degree of scepticism as to whether they do anything, but an understandable reluctance to move to high powered mainstream medicine and on the...
Oct 24, 2010 | Uncategorized |
The media loves a good news story. In health, it’s usually a “breakthrough”. Every other night on the news, there is a story that announces some new breakthrough in cancer treatment. If only it were that easy – if the news stories were accurate, we would have already...
Oct 13, 2010 | Infertility, IVF |
One of the most interesting presentations I heard at the recent Fertility Society of Australia conference in Adelaide was not one about cutting edge science or new developments (as an aside, Sydney IVF’s technology is at the forefront of IVF practice but it’s always...
Sep 20, 2010 | Pregnancy Rates Analysis 101 |
For my first blog session aimed at increasing awareness around fertility treatments and in helping you to analyse the myriad of stuff that gets presented out there, I’ve chosen to review a newspaper article that recently came across my desk, written in the Buderim...
