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The New Link between IVF and Cortisol Levels in Hair
Healthy hair is a good indication of overall good health. When you’re stressed, hair is often the first to show signs of strain. Dry, brittle, dull hair often means that the stress hormone cortisol is wrecking havoc with your system. Less stress and a diet full of omega 3s, grass-fed meats or other proteins can…
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IVF Over 40?
Now that it takes longer to establish one’s career and find a suitable life partner, women are delaying starting a family until their late 30s and early 40s, the very time when a woman’s fertility starts to decline. As a result, women over 40 are turning to IVF, and in the second article of her…
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Single-Embryo Transfer (SET) or Multiple-Embryo Transfer (MET)
At one time, twin sightings were a rare occasion, but due to the rise of both IVF and the use of fertility drugs, twins and even triplets are a much more common occurrence and it isn’t unusual to now know of families with a set of twins or to see parent’s pushing double strollers down…
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“Don’t give a load of importance to any one cycle.”
There was a really interesting article published in New York Times this morning. We would like to highlight a really important point of this research study which confirms our approach to IVF treatment. “Some clinicians also believe that women who do not produce any eggs — or produce just two or fewer — after stimulation…
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China Struggles with IVF Demand as One-Child Policy Ends
News spread fast in October when China officially announced to end one-child policy. Since then we had several internal discussions guessing how it would affect IVF business in China and in the United States. We were guessing that in light of the new policy there would be less pressure to have boy in the family…
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Canadian study: Lack of age limit for government-funded IVF is costly and ineffective
A retrospective study of the Quebec pregnancy registry indicated no successful IVF pregnancies in patients > 44 y/o in Canada from 2010-2012. The conclusions from the authors is that IVF in woman> 44 y/o is pointless and expensive. We have been involved with dozens of successful IVF pregnancies in woman older than 44 years (their…
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Japanese IVF
People.com, among numerous other news sites, recently posted a picture (shown left) that has been getting some attention around the web: http://www.people.com/article/photo-baby-syringe-heart-captures-ivf-struggle-facebook It’s a great image for sure to represent all of the needles and medications that are part of a Traditional IVF protocol. It certainly caught our attention. We thought we’d post our take on…