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Infertility Fast Facts

6.1 Million

Couples approximately in the United States, or 10 percent of all couples of childbearing age, have difficulty conceiving.

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IVF Success Rates

State-of-the-Art Laboratory Helps Dr. Brown Achieve Success

Our Valley Fertility clinic provides a range of therapies for couples attempting to overcome infertility. Having a top quality laboratory gives Dr. Brown and our team the best chances of enabling couples to successfully conceive. For your convenience, our South Texas IVF lab is located in the clinic, which lets patients consolidate visits and save time.

In our McAllen, Texas IVF lab, we can perform in-vitro fertilization (IVF), intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), and assisted hatching.  

As well, we offer advanced IVF procedures like parental genetic testing and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD). Parental genetic testing allows potential parents to know if they carry certain diseases such as Huntington’s disease, cystic fibrosis or sickle cell anemia. If both parents are found to be carriers, Dr. Brown and our team can take steps to make sure the affected couple can have a healthy child.

 Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) can screen embryos to look for specific diseases, abnormalities that might cause miscarriage and chromosomal abnormalities that would result in fatality or grave illness at birth.

Improve your odds of conception. Contact our clinic to schedule a consultation with Dr. Brown.


Our Lab is CAP-Certified

Most fertility clinics have a laboratory, but not all labs are created equally. In our Valley Fertility clinic, we want to ensure the best possible chance of success. Accredited by the College of American Pathologists (CAP), our center goes beyond just regulatory compliance, committed to delivering the highest standards of clinical excellence.

We have designed our laboratory to foster an optimal environment for the growth and development of patient embryos. Our lab features a “clean room,” specifically established to remove contaminants that can compromise embryo quality and lead to lower pregnancy rates. Count on our embryologists and support team to ensure the health and wellbeing of your embryos, right from the start.


About Our Embryologists

Yinzhong Bing, Ph.D

Yinzhong Bing, Ph.D | View Yinzhong Bing's CV
Having extensively studied and trained in China, Dr. Bing also spent time in Japan and Sweden honing his skills in the area of reproductive technology. For the last few years, he worked as the senior embryologist in the Conceptia Clinic in New Brunswick Canada. In this role, Dr. Bing oversaw day-to-day operations, established quality control, and performed assisted reproductive technology (ART) procedures. Dr. Bing is committed to providing the best environment for technological and patient success in our Valley Fertility clinic.

Li Mei Che

Li Mei Che | View Li Mei Chi's CV
A recent transplant to McAllen, Che received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from accredited universities in China. Li Mei Che has spent the past eight years focused on the science of reproductive technology. Recently an embryologist in Canada, Che has extensive experience in oocyte retrieval, conventional in-vitro fertilization (IVF), intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) and assisted hatching.

Our IVF Success Rates

Dr. Brown and our embryologists want patients to enjoy safe, healthy pregnancies.  We have dedicated ourselves to helping you accomplish the goal of bringing home a healthy baby. We continue to stay up-to-date on the latest research and offer leading edge techniques that can increase treatment success. Our embryologists will take excellent care of your “baby” until implantation, when your body can take over the job.

By offering innovative technology and advanced procedures, more South Texas couples can attain the babies they desire. In our Valley Fertility clinic, our IVF success rates rival national numbers. Committed to truth in reporting, we regularly provide our numbers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). To view our most recent rates, see the following tables.


Pregnancy Rate Per Embryo Transfer Resulting In Live Birth

Fresh Embryo Transfer Using Own Eggs

YEAR Age <35 35-37 38-40 41-42 43-44
2009 47.8 % 0/7 50.0 % 0/1 0/1
2008 38.2 % 33.3 % 27.3 % 1/3 0/1
2007 54.5 % 20.0 % 28.6 % 0/2 1/1
2006 42.3 % 33.3 % 10.0 % 0/1 NA
2005 44.4 % 26.5 % 37.5 % 0/2 NA
2004 54.8 % 55.6 % 70.0 % 0/2 NA
2003 46.4 % 58.8 % 33.0 % No cases NA

Frozen Embryo Transfer Using Own Eggs

YEAR Age <35 35-37 38-40 41-42 43-44
2009 66.7 % 0/2 50.0 % No cases No cases
2008 36.3 % 0/2 67% No cases No cases
2007 50% 100% 100% 0/1 No cases
2006 37.5 % 33.3 % 0/4 No cases NA
2005 50% 0/4 No cases No cases NA
2004 40 % 50% No cases No cases NA
2003 No cases

Embryo Transfer Using Donor Eggs

YEAR FRESH CYCLES FROZEN EMBRYOS
2009 87.5 % 0/2
2008 2/5 0/1
2007 7/8 0/1
2006 1/3 0/2
2005 2/2 No cases
2004 0/1 No cases
2003 50% No cases