Avoiding IVF Disasters: Are Your Embryos in Safe Hands?
Posted by Dr. David Kreiner in Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Embryo Transfer, IVF, Infertility Information, Laboratory, Treating Infertility on 22. Mar, 2011 | 0 Comments
Practicing medicine for the past 30 years, I have developed an enormous respect for those things that happen to people that are beyond our control. Sometimes, the issue of preventability is a gray one and defies definitive blame assignment. Yet, when the dust settles there remain victims who are harmed for whom we are all [...]
Embryo Rejection
Posted by Dr. David Kreiner in Embryo Transfer, Infertility Information on 10. Jan, 2011 | 1 Comment
Dear Fertility Doc:
Two months ago I had my first IVF cycle & it did not work. I was wondering what common reasons there are a body would reject the 2 embryos that seemed to look good on the 3rd day?
A few years ago I had a healthy child that came naturally with out even trying. [...]
Reflecting on The Nobel Prize Being Awarded to Dr. Robert Edwards, IVF Pioneer
Posted by Dr. Kreiner in Assisted Reproductive Technologies, IVF, Treating Infertility on 12. Oct, 2010 | 0 Comments
Dr. Robert Edwards, the IVF pioneer responsible for the first successful IVF in the world, was announced as the recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize for physiology. Dr. Edwards’ successful development of IVF technology was originally received by the public media as more science fiction than science. As a first year medical student [...]
Stress and Infertility – The Link is There….
Posted by Dr. Kreiner in Mind-Body Fertility Connection on 31. Aug, 2010 | 9 Comments
The old fertility legend about a couple who had failed fertility treatments, adopts a baby and then all of a sudden gets pregnant is one we have all heard.
In fact, as a practicing reproductive endocrinologist over the past 25 years, I have experienced this with some of my own patients.
Those stories have led us to [...]
The Middle Years of Reproductive Endocrinology
Posted by Dr. Kreiner in Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Reproductive Health, Treating Infertility on 18. Aug, 2010 | 8 Comments
I entered the field of IVF in 1985 when the pregnancy rate at the Jones Institute, the most successful program in the country, was 15 percent.
IVF’s Early Years
Practicing reproductive medicine during the ’80s was like having a new love or beginning a new romance — all of it seemed liked a miracle, and everything [...]
