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Infertility and Fertility Treatment

Infertility is defined as a male’s or female’s inability or reduced biological ability to contribute to the conception of a child.  More commonly, it is defined as the inability to become pregnant after 12 months of intercourse without birth control.  Infertility may also refer to a woman’s inability to carry a pregnancy to full [...]

IVF Success Rates Information Can Be Misleading

A couple is considered infertile when they have been unable to conceive a child after a year.   When conservative treatments fail, physicians often recommend fertilizing the woman’s eggs outside the womb, a process known as in vitro fertilization (“IVF”). IVF involves artificially stimulating egg production in a woman by use of fertility drugs.  The [...]