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24Aug

Thalassaemia Carrier Couple Successfully Delivered a Healthy Baby Boy through genetic testings PGD /PGS

Advanced Technologies in Fertility Treatment brings hope for Thalassaemia couple

SELANGOR, August 9, 2016 — Alpha Fertility Centre (AFC) has made another significant milestone with its fertility treatment when Mr and Mrs Ong joyously welcomed the arrival of their healthy baby boy, weighing 3.58 kg. The baby boy who was successfully delivered last month, Sunday 9th July 2016 is in perfectly healthy condition despite the fact that both his parents are Alpha Thalassaemia carriers. This is the first successful case of a healthy newborn from both Alpha Thalassaemia carrier parents with Alpha Thalassaemia in Malaysia through the concurrent use of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) and Preimplantation Genetic Screening (PGS) with Ion Torrent Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) which were performed on a single platform using a single biopsy.

It is really a bundle of joy worth celebrating by Mr and Mrs Ong as they both are Thalassaemia carriers. While the chance of a child born from parents with this genetic condition to be normal is only 25%, the risk of their offspring to be an Alpha Thalassaemia carrier is as high as 50% and 25% risking Alpha Thalassaemia Major (also known as Bart’s hydrops fetalis). (more…)

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17Aug

SORTED SPERM SPELLS MORE SUCCESSFUL PREGNANCIES

In an ideal world, every family would have an equal number of boys and girls so as to create a balance in society. In the real world, however, whether one has sons or daughters is very much a gamble. All parents can do is to hope and pray for healthy babies.

Still, it has not stopped some couples from trying to determine the gender of their babies using unauthenticated means such as sexual positions, having intercourse during certain times of the month or taking bizarre foods. This is especially true for couples with secondary infertility (inability to conceive again after the first child) or those with a string of sons or daughters. The advent of Microsort® (USA) proved to be a game-changer for couples who are serious about gender balancing. The scientifically-proven preconception technology increases the likelihood of having a baby of a specific gender by separating the sperm based on the chromosome they are carrying (X - Chromosome or Y – Chromosome). This process is called Microsort®. (more…)
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12Aug

MOST NUMBER OF IVF BABIES GATHERING IN AN EVENT IN MALAYSIA 2016

159 IVF babies produced through Alpha Fertility Centre along with their loving parents gathered on last July 23, 2016 to jointly commemorate Alpha Fertility Centre's 5th anniversary celebration at Tropicana Golf and Country Club. This momentous occasion witness the emotional moments for  all the parents to meet, greet and share this joyous session with each other as they claimed victory over their fertility treatment journey. alpha 5th anni-279 This record-breaking moment was also penned-down in the Malaysia Book of Records under Human Achievement Category for achieving The Most Number of In Vitro Fertilization  (IVF) Babies Gathering in an event. The record certification was presented to Dato' Dr Colin Lee during the 5th Anniversary event. (more…)
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01Aug

The Star Online : AFC celebrates anniversary with gathering of IVF children

Alpha Fertility Centre celebrates anniversary with gathering of IVF children

Alpha Fertility Centre celebrates its 5th anniversary with a large gathering of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) children. The centre's consultant gynecologist and fertility specialist, Datuk Dr Colin Lee shared on the latest technology used in the centre for IVF treatment.

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17Jun

ALPHA’s New Freezing Fee Scheme

Good News! Alpha Fertility Centre is revising our embryos’ and blastocysts’ freezing fee* to more pocket friendly scheme. And what’s more? It is using a high quality freezing method called Cryotec Freezing Method from Japan. Cryotec is the only technology that achieves 100% survival rate for freeze-thaw embryos and blastocysts**. For more information, please call us at +603 6141 6166 or email : enquiry@alphafertilitycentre.com * Effective from 1 May 2016 ** Lee, CSS.; Lim YX; Low SY. High 100% Post-thawed Survival Rate in Human Embryos at Alpha Fertility Centre. Presented at the 23rd Congress of the Obstetrical & Gynaecological Society of Malaysia, 5-8 June 2014, Malaysia 
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15Jun

IVF Journey 101 Sharing Session

IVF treatment is a complex process. Often, couples are confused and do not know how to get started, what do they need to do, what will happen during the treatment, or even the contemplation of whether IVF right for them. Be informed and empowered yourself to make the best decision for your dream! IVF journey 101 sharing session is planned to educate and equip couples so that you gain an adequate information to plan for your next journey towards parenthood. Sat, 16 Apr 2016 Alpha Fertility Centre Kota Damansara Call us for more enquiries or reservation. +603 6141 6166
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22May

One Incubator, One Patient

At AFC, we dedicate one incubator for each patient during IVF treatment. Before transfer back to the mother's womb, your precious little darlings (your embryos!) will have their own dedicated incubator for optimal development from fertilization to blastocyst culturing process. What is the significance of having an incubator dedicated only to your embryos? This is because embryos are extremely sensitive to changes in temperature, pH value, humidity and gas mixture concentrations, while the ooptimum development of embryos depend greatly on these conditions. For example, each time when the incubator door is opened, these condition in the incubator will be affected. Hence, it requires time to regenerate energy to recover the temperature inside the incubator. In IVF process, if an incubator contain more than one patient's embryos, the incubator's door will need to be open several times for embryologists to do examination. By doing so, it would affect the other patient's embryos in the same incubator. By dedicating oonly 1 incubator for your embryos, your little darlings are protected from unnecessary distress. And due to the high cost of incubators, usually other IVF laboratories will be sharing the incubators to accommodate several patient's embryos at one time. While at AFC, we have heavily invested in numerous incubators to ensure that each patient can get their own dedicated incubator. The “One Incubator, One Patient” system at AFC thus minimizes harm, and promotes the most optimum conditions for the development of embryos, resulting in healthtier embryos and in return promotes higher pregnancy rates. At the same time, ''One Incubator, One Patient'' system eliminates the chances of mixing up with other patient's embryos.  
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