Why Quality Matters in Your Fertility Lab When it comes to finding the best practice for your fertility needs, the on-site laboratory is almost as important as the doctors and staff providing the care. And although almost every practice specializing in infertility offers its own lab, the quality of that lab is more important than you may think ‒ and it can vary dramatically. We…
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Elective Fertility Preservation Oocyte cryopreservation, or egg “freezing,” is now available to help preserve fertility. Once considered experimental, this procedure is now approved as a standardized treatment of care for fertility preservation in women who have delayed having children. (In another blog, we discuss fertility preservation for newly diagnosed cancer patients.) About Female Fertility The female body works very differently from the male reproductive system. …
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Embryo Donation: An Alternate Path to Parenthood Since the 1980s, couples undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) have had the option to freeze excess embryos and keep these embryos in storage until they are ready to be used for attempting a pregnancy. For many couples, however, IVF is successful on the first or second embryo transfer, and couples are left with their family size goal met…
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Understanding Your Fertility Preservation Options When Cancer is Involved Cancer treatments, specifically chemotherapy and radiation, are well documented to cause a decrease in fertility in both men and women. This is particularly true in younger patients. A renewed focus on fertility preservation has recently been placed on cancer patients, due in large part to the fact that cancer therapies have made huge strides over the…
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The ABCs of Semen Analysis A semen analysis is usually one of the first parts of a couple’s infertility work-up, and it’s a fairly simple test. While many men cringe when they imagine a doctor’s office room with nothing but a sample cup, racy magazines, and lots of pressure, a semen analysis is critical in evaluating male fertility. In fact, problems with the sperm, or…
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