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Category Archives: Fertility News
Just in case you didn’t get enough technical details in my last post about PGD, PGS, CCS, and preimplantation genetic testing, I wanted to highlight this very technical and in depth article from the Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics. It talks … Continue reading
Posted in CCS - comprehensive chromosome screening, Czech, Fertility News, IVF Success Rates, IVF Treatment Abroad
Tagged aneupolidy, array CGH, CGH, comprehensive chromosome screening, FISH PGD, microarray, PCR, PGD, PGS, prague, preimlantation genetic diagnosis, preimplantation genetic screening, SNP
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The Embryoscope Time Lapse Video monitoring that I talked about here made the US NBC Evening News! Here’s a link to the NBC News report which provides very interesting video showing how Embryoscope works and what doctors see as its primary benefits: http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nightly-news/50997885/#50997885 Although the medical reporter … Continue reading
Posted in Czech, Fertility News, IVF Success Rates, IVF Treatment Abroad, travel, Treatment protocols
Tagged Embryoscope, India, IVF, miscarriage, Spain, time lapse video monitoring, UK, US
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The lastest publishing of the US SART IVF clinic success rates for 2011 has led to some interesting discussions about how to best use the SART or CDC data. It also identified a few scenarios where the data simply isn’t … Continue reading
Posted in CCS - comprehensive chromosome screening, choose a clinic, Donor Egg IVF, donor embryos, egg donor, egg freezing, embryo donation, Fertility News, frozen donor eggs, IVF Success Rates
Tagged lower cost donor egg ivf
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As a follow up to my post earlier this week about the 2011 donor egg cycle statistics, I wanted to also report on some interesting notes in the non-donor (or own egg) IVF Statistics. It is a bit more cumbersome … Continue reading
Now that the ASRM has lifted the “Experimental” label on egg freezing (also known as oocyte preservation, fertility preservation, or egg banking), more attention is being focused on options available for egg freezing, and educating the public about treatment options and identifying when … Continue reading
Posted in Czech, egg freezing, Fertility News, IVF Treatment Abroad, travel
Tagged ASRM, chemotherapy, egg banking, egg freezing, fertility preservation, oocyte freezing, radiation
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I am honored and excited to have been selected to join the Advisory Board of the nonprofit Parents Via Egg Donation as their IVF Abroad Advisor. It is truly a distinguished group of colleagues on this board and I am … Continue reading
Posted in Donor Egg IVF, egg donation, egg donor, Fertility News, IVF Treatment Abroad
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I am often asked about the differences of using frozen donor eggs (unfertilized donor eggs from an egg bank) vs. doing a fresh donor egg cycle. Here are a few things to consider: The benefits to frozen donor eggs (not … Continue reading
Posted in Donor Egg IVF, donor embryos, Fertility News, frozen donor eggs, IVF Treatment Abroad
Tagged ASRM, donor egg bank, donor egg pricing, egg freezing experimental, frozen donor egg success rates
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Recently, some new rules went into effect, making it much harder for Czech IVF reproductive clinics to accept shipments of frozen sperm (from a partner or a donor) if the sperm originates in a non-European Union country. The result of these new … Continue reading
Posted in Czech, Fertility News, IVF Treatment Abroad, Uncategorized
Tagged Czech IVF, donor sperm
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A study that appeared in the May 2012 New England Journal of Medicine explored the risk of birth defects when using reproductive technology. That story had the media and infertility circles buzzing, and lots of my clients asking questions. Is IVF safe? Is … Continue reading
Posted in Czech, Fertility News, Male Factor, Treatment protocols, Uncategorized
Tagged birth defects, Czech Republic, fertilization, Hana Krasna, ICSI, IVF, New England Journal of Medicine, ReproGenesis
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Couples from Ireland considering cross-border surrogacy have long been left in legal limbo when trying to secure citizenship for children born to surrogates outside of Ireland. This has caused many children to be left in legal limbo, creating heartache and … Continue reading
Posted in Donor Egg IVF, donor embryos, Fertility News, IVF Treatment Abroad, surrogacy
Tagged cross-border surrogacy, donor egg, donor sperm, Ireland, Ireland surrogacy, Irish, IVF Abroad
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Recently, I have been in communication with a clinic in the Czech Republic that is using Embryo Monitoring in their IVF practice both for non-donor egg IVF and for donor egg IVF treatments. They have reported that they are seeing about … Continue reading
Posted in Donor Egg IVF, Fertility News, IVF Success Rates, IVF Treatment Abroad
Tagged czech, donor egg ivf, embryo, embryo monitoring, EmbryoSense, fragmentation, IVF, IVF Success Rates, nuclei, pronuclei, Unisense FertiliTech A/S
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The American Journal of Perinatology Feb 2012 issue includes a study by Columbia University Medical Center indicating that older women who are pregnant with donor eggs are not at a higher risk of obstetrical complications than their younger counterparts who were … Continue reading
Posted in Donor Egg IVF, Fertility News, Pregnancy over 50
Tagged American Journal of Perinatology, Columbia University Medical Center, donor egg ivf, pregnancy complications
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The SART 2010 US IVF clinic statistics have been released. As I talked about in this post, just statistics alone are not the only thing to consider, but it does give us just one more piece of data to throw … Continue reading
Today, Pfizer issued a recall for certain lots of birth control pills. It affects Lo/Ovral and generic Norgestrel 0.3 mg/Ethinyl Estradiol 0.03 mg tablets. The full list of affected medications and lots can be found here: http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm289770.htm You may wonder … Continue reading
Posted in Donor Egg IVF, Fertility News, Treatment protocols
Tagged birth control pills, donor egg ivf, IVF, Pfizer
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It is official, we’ve moved the blog to new digs. Please add our new feed to your reader, or whatever you are using to follow blogs. There is also a link in the right column to make it easy to … Continue reading
Posted in blog, Fertility News, IVF Treatment Abroad
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A new non-invasive test for detecting Down syndrome was announced recently and reported in this NY Times article. This new test by Sequenom tests for Down syndrome by testing a sample of the mother’s blood rather than the more invasive tests of amniocentesis … Continue reading
Posted in Fertility News, Uncategorized
Tagged amnioscentesis, chromosomes, CVS, down syndrome, pregnancy testing
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Fertility Success Rates recently published their list of the top US clinics for Live Birth rates with Fresh Donor Eggs. They are reporting that this data is based on the 2009 Society For Assisted Reproductive Technology (aka SART) IVF Success Rates data (note: … Continue reading
Posted in Donor Egg IVF, Fertility News
Tagged 2009 success rates, de ivf, donor ivf, IVF Success Rates, SART, US Clinics
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Biological clocks – they aren’t just for women anymore. A recent article referencing a male factor infertility study showed that there is a decline in male fertility after age 41, and it points to an even sharper decline after age 45. … Continue reading
Posted in Fertility News, Treatment protocols
Tagged DNA fragmentation, donor eggs, IVF, SCSA test, semen analysis, Sperm Chromatin Structure Assay
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