Doctor or lab technician adjusting needle to fertilize a human egg in IVF petri dish

IUI Versus IVF

If you are having difficulty conceiving and are looking into fertility treatments, you have likely come across the acronyms ‘IUI’ and ‘IVF’. Both IUI (Intrauterine Insemination) and IVF (In Vitro Fertilization) have assisted countless patients in expanding their families. Yet, they are two very different treatment paths. In this article, we’ll briefly examine what each […]

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A 3 D model of chromosomes.

Genetics and Early Pregnancy Loss

By: Dr. Sony Sierra, MD, FRCSC, REI, Deputy Medical Director and Partner The majority of losses that happen early in pregnancy are due to random genetic error or “aneuploidy”. This can happen when an egg that has an abnormal number of chromosomes is fertilized (meiotic error), or if there is a multiplication or division error

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