RSCBA IVF Lab Tour - Bay Area Fertility Services This comprehensive look at the lab at Reproductive Science Center of the Bay Area provides step-by-step detail of the IVF process and what patients can expect from the first day of IVF treatment. By: RSCBayArea … Continue reading →

A medical worker works on an intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) station on Febuary 2, 2011 at the Erasmus Hospital in Brussels. GEORGES GOBET/AFP/Getty Images Although use of an IVF treatment for male infertility, known as intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), has doubled in the past decade, the procedure is not always associated with better outcomes, according to a new study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. During ICSI, a single sperm is injected directly into an egg. The procedure, which was introduced in 1992, made it possible for many infertile men to father children. "In the pre-ICSI days, couples with severe male infertility would frequently have to resort to donor insemination, thus eliminating the possibility of the man to be the genetic parent," explained one expert, Dr. Avner Hershlag, chief of the Center for Human Reproduction at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, N.Y. "There are now millions of children and adults whose fathers had deficient sperm, and it is because of ICSI that they have been created," said Hershlag, who was not involved in the new study. Play Video The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is looking at a controversial procedure whereby a baby can be created … Continue reading →