18:35 6th January 2018 | Fertility Assessment

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Some causes of male fertility challenges may have simple solutions while others require more advanced treatments. After an assessment, the reason for infertility will help determine the best treatment plan to improve chances of conception.

What Does an Assessment Entail

After minor challenges have been ruled out by a physician at a Medicentre, a FertilitySure assessment for men or couples is recommended. For men, an assessment con...

15:55 18th October 2017 | Male Reproductive System

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Primary healthcare services could assist with male fertility challenges before specialist services are required. However, before taking a look at how these services and recommended lifestyle adjustments can help address male factor infertility, let’s briefly look at:

            (a) What is Male Factor Infertility?

If the reason that a couple is not able to conceive stems from challenges related to the man’s reproductive system...

20:55 9th February 2016 | Insemination

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For a woman to get pregnant, a man’s sperm must travel from the vagina through the cervix into the womb and up into one of the fallopian tubes. If the sperm arrives in the tubes soon after the release of the egg from the ovary(ovulation), the sperm and egg can meet in the tube and fertilisation may occur.

The cervix limits the number of sperms that enter the uterus, so only a few sperm make their way to the fallopian tubes. Intrauteri...

18:15 1st July 2015 | Perfect Sperm

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We only need one sperm to fertilise an egg and produce a baby. But how do you find the right one? There are approximately 300 million sperm in a single ejaculation but not all of them can do the job.

There’s a process called Intra-cytoplasmic morphologically selected sperm injection (IMSI) through which sperms are selected under an extremely powerful microscope. According to the World Health Organisatio...