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Family and fertility: Is IVF the magic bullet?
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An embryologist at KKH looking for healthy sperm. One technique involves steps like selecting and injecting sperm directly into an egg.
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SINGAPORE – Among the first patients Ms Amy Lee Shaw Ni met when she was cutting her teeth as a junior embryologist at Singapore General Hospital (SGH) was a young couple from Hong Kong hoping to get pregnant.
Their in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment at the hospital’s Centre for Assisted Reproduction (Care) started in August 1993, around the same time the King of Pop Michael Jackson was performing in Singapore.
