Male Factor Infertility? Maybe Not

Last week I posted an article about how many couples going through IVF would get pregnant anyway. Here's another article along those same lines. If you're dealing with male factor infertility, this may be of interest:

Thousands 'wrongly branded infertile'

From the article:

Thousands of couples may have received infertility treatment when they did not need it, scientists have suggested.
Others may not have got the help they needed to conceive.

Scientists have said the standard measurements used by doctors for decades to assess men's fertility may have been flawed.

Doctors currently use World Health Organisation (WHO) standards to assess how fertile semen samples are.

These recommendations provide a more reliable means for estimating the likelihood of a man's fertility

Dr Duane Alexander, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
But US research suggests men whose sperm counts fall below the WHO standards could still conceive a child naturally.

The new measurements suggested by them both raise the threshold for fertility and lower the threshold for infertility - with a "grey" area in the middleM