For the 15% of the population experiencing fertility challenges, the enormous improvements in the field of reproductive medicine in the past 25 years are a blessing. Kathy Fountain, LMHC, Mind Body Tampa Bay, discusses your options.This video is …
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How Long Can You Wait to Have a Baby?
Deep anxiety about the ability to have children later in life plagues many women. But the decline in fertility over the course of a woman’s 30s has been oversold. Here’s what the statistics really tell us—and what they don’t.
AMA Urges Insurers to Cover Fertility Preservation
If insurers cover costs for reconstruction after a cancer patient has a mastectomy and costs for storing blood in case a cancer patient needs a subsequent transfusion, why shouldn’t they cover expenses for fertility preservation when a young cancer patient requests it?
Male Infertility: Some Thoughts for Inquiring Men Who Want to “Do It Yourself”
by William D. Petok, Ph.D.
While the state of fertility and infertility knowledge has grown enormously since the first IVF baby was born, one would be hard pressed to understand the role of men in the equation if you read only …
Fertility Preservation in Women With Breast Cancer: Challenges and Opportunities
Given the lack of long-term data, we are often left with more questions than answers about determining the appropriate management of these patients. Caring for women with estrogen receptor–positive tumors and BRCA mutations can add additional complexity. Women with hormone receptor–positive tumors face years of estrogen deprivation and/or endocrine therapy that is contraindicated during pregnancy. BRCA mutation carriers may also consider risk-reducing surgeries to decrease the risk of second breast cancers or to prevent ovarian cancers, thus further limiting fertility potential.
Understanding Fertility in Your Forties
The fact is fertility decreases with age and this process accelerates at a much faster rate the older you get.
Argentina Requires HMOs to Fund Fertility Efforts
Argentina’s health care providers must now provide fertility treatments to anyone older than 18 who wants them, be they married or single, gay or straig
The Trouble With Talking About Fertility
In these progressive times in which women and men are delaying marriage and children, too, the topic of female fertility — and how it’s not going to be there forever, ladies! — seems to come up again and again.
ASCO Guidelines for Fertility Preservation Affirm Oocyte Preservation
Guidelines for fertility preservation in newly diagnosed cancer patients have been updated to include oocyte preservation as a standard practice rather than an experimental option, according to the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
Bill Would Cover Fertility Care for Seriously Ill
Insurance companies would be required to pay for fertility treatments for patients battling cancer and other serious diseases under a bill advancing through the California Legislature.