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Open letter from our laboratory director
Dear Patient, In response to the recent reports of the failure of liquid nitrogen storage tanks at two prominent IVF centers in the US, we at Hanabusa IVF wanted to reach out to all of our patients to assure that your frozen specimens are safe at our facility. We feel confident that the systems we…
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Avoiding Toxins
While diet, sleep and exercise all play a role in both good health and good reproductive health, there is another area we’d all do well to pay attention to—our bathroom and kitchen shelves and the products we use and are surrounded by on a daily basis. In previous blogs, we’ve discussed how endocrine disrupters can…
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More Women are Becoming Mothers
Last week, front page news in the New York Times focused on the U.S. fertility rate. While the U.S. fertility rate is down, the article reported, more women are mothers. Several factors contribute to this remarkable if somewhat alarming news and from our perspective some of this news is positive. While younger women of childbearing…
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A New Year, A New Approach and Some New Year’s Resolutions to benefit your fertility
It’s a new year, and that means a new start—a time to reflect, refresh and renew. If you are entering 2018 with hopes of having a child, this is an excellent time to make some resolutions regarding your reproductive health. Whether it’s your first attempt at trying to conceive with the help of reproductive medicine…
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Coping with Infertility During the Holiday Season
While the holiday season is a time for family and togetherness, it is also a time filled with all things relating to children—holiday cards and social media posts featuring families and new babies, TV commercials and other advertisements depicting children and babies and the magic and spirit of the season. The desire for a child…
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“It Only Takes One Good Egg” (and Sperm)
Sometimes it seems simple enough. One sperm fertilizes one egg and nine months later a baby is born. Yet, as we know, so many more factors contribute to the birth of this baby and as much as fertility and reproductive science have discovered and achieved, there is still an element of uncertainty, hope and chance…
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The Importance of Male Reproductive Health
It takes two to make a baby. Woman and man. Egg and sperm. Yet most of the responsibility for conceiving seems to fall on women’s shoulders, largely because research into fertility has focused predominantly on the female reproductive system, causing women to rightly, and with good cause, learn about egg quantity and quality, the effect…
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Make Coffee, Have a Baby
Starbucks is no longer just your neighborhood coffee store, of the coffee shop that seems to be taking over the neighborhood, it’s now the coffee shop that is helping to populate that very neighborhood. In a surprising revelation, or perhaps not so surprising, Starbucks unlike some other corporations in America, provides health insurance coverage for…
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Genetic Editing and the Human Embryo
The field of genetic engineering made a big announcement last week. Scientists at the Oregon Health and Science University were able to successfully edit genes of a human embryo. This a major scientific advancement and a way to potentially ward off disease, particularly chronic genetic diseases like early-on set Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s, Tay-Sachs, sickle cell anemia…
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A DOR/POI Patient is Pregnant: A Success Story Involving the Retrieval of Only Two Eggs
A 36-year old patient from out of state contacted us in order to consult on her particular infertility case. She’d had a long history of irregular periods, and her AMH was 0.022 indicating she was both DOR (Diminished Ovarian Reserve) and POI (Primary Ovarian Insufficiency). She’d worked with her local specialist and attempted IUI, but…