by Dr. Geoffrey Sher | Aug 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
All multiple pregnancies pose a risk to both mother and offspring. Pregnancy induced maternal complications such as miscarriage, pre-eclampsia, antepartum and post-partum hemorrhage become progressively more prevalent the higher the multiple gestation. For the babies,...
by Dr. Geoffrey Sher | Aug 5, 2017 | Uncategorized
Most pregnancy induced placental complications that compromise placentation and intrauterine development have their origin in conditions that present prior to conception. As such, a patient requiring IVF presents her RE with a golden opportunity to preemptively...
by Dr. Geoffrey Sher | Jul 23, 2017 | Uncategorized
Indiscriminate selection and use of protocols of Controlled Ovarian Stimulation (COS) can be decidedly detrimental to egg and embryo competency/quality especially when it comes to IVF conducted in women on opposite sides of the spectrum of response to fertility drugs...
by Dr. Geoffrey Sher | Jul 8, 2017 | Uncategorized
Oscar-nominated director Amanda Micheli’s provocative documentary, Vegas Baby followed several aspiring parents, who desperately wanted to have a baby but were struggling with infertility as well as the high cost of treatments, through a contest that offered a prize...
by Dr. Geoffrey Sher | Jul 2, 2017 | Uncategorized
About 1/3 of infertility is caused by a male factor, one third by a female factor and another third is due to a combination of both male and female factors. Thus, in more than 50% of cases, a male factor causes or contributes to the problem. Today, with very few...
by Dr. Geoffrey Sher | Jun 28, 2017 | Uncategorized
In 2005, my associate Levent Keskintepe PhD and I introduced Preimplantation Genetic Testing (PGT) with the ability to identify all chromosomes in the embryo’s cells, into the field of IVF. This approach, which is now widely used throughout the world, permits...
