Her doctor is Dr. Robert Casper, the reproductive endocrinologist who runs the Toronto Center for Advanced Reproductive Technology. He has started to offer women a fertility treatment that’s not available in the United States, at least not yet. The technique was named Augment by the company that developed it, and its aim is to help women who have been unable to get pregnant because their eggs aren’t as fresh as they once were.
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Infertility Struggles? It’s Not Always a Woman’s Issue
Stories about couples struggling with infertility often feature the woman as the protagonist. But men also face fertility problems. At the Shady Grove facilities, men are part of the infertility problem in 40 to 50 percent of couples who come in, says Gilbert Mottla, a reproductive endocrinologist with Shady Grove in the District of Columbia. “It’s fairly common for us to find both [partners] are contributing to [infertility],” Mottla says. Less common, however, is to find that a man is the sole cause of infertility.
Mini-IVF Yields Mini Success
by Corey Whelan
If your reproductive endocrinologist offered you the option of doing a less expensive form of In Vitro Fertilization, which not only required less injected medication but also had the same success rate as the more expensive …