Questions to Ask if Your IVF Cycle Fails

Although IVF has a high chance of success, not all couples conceive with their first IVF cycle.  Patients who don’t conceive with IVF often ask, “What happened?  Why weren’t we successful?”  These can be difficult questions to answer, but after an unsuccessful cycle, it’s important for both the patients and the physician to review how the cycle went.  For patients, …

Computers May Help Choose the Best Embryos for IVF

Researchers in Brazil are developing a new software tool that may help physicians and embryologists choose the best embryos for transfer after an IVF cycle.  The computer technology is supposed to recognize 24 characteristics of embryos, some of which are not detectable to embryologists using even the most sophisticated microscopes.  These characteristics include the size of the embryo, the texture …

New strategy for achieving pregnancies in older women-maybe

We all know that the eggs of older women do not work as well as those of younger women. It’s mostly because there are fewer eggs to choose from, more are chromosomally abnormal and many do not have the energy to progress to a blastocyst capable of implantation. Here’s a new theory, that it’s the the poor functioning of the …