by Catherine Donaldson-Evans AOL Health, October 12, 2010 A 42-year-old woman just gave birth to a baby that came from an embryo frozen 20 years ago, according to a just-published case study. The woman adopted the fertilized egg from a couple who underwent in vitro fertilization (IVF) two decades ago and had left-over embryos they […]
by Bonnie Rochman Time, November 3, 2010 After 10 years of marriage ended in divorce and no children, Dr. Julie Lorber knew she had to take extreme measures if she ever hoped to become a mother. So at age 35, Lorber, now 39, elected to remove a portion of her right ovary to have it […]
by Rosemary Paxman BioNews.org.uk, December 6, 2010 A new study has shown that IVF may not be linked to an increased risk of certain cancers among female patients. A team of Swedish researchers concluded that, although cancer or cancer treatment may increase the need for IVF, the risks of cancer post-IVF treatment were low. The […]
by Simon Tomlinson Mail Online Health, March 25, 2012 ‘Women will have so much choice about when to have children’ Scientists can stop menopause with ovary transplants Transplanted ovaries effective for at least seven years British women could soon choose to freeze ovaries Women may soon be able to forgo the menopause after scientists hailed […]
Advisory Board’s Dr. Sherman Silber Shares Infertility Techniques in China Global Thinking – News and Views From the College of Arts & Sciences at Webster UniversityApril 4, 2012 Sherman Silber, M.D., a member of the College of Arts & Sciences Advisory Board and a renowned pioneer in microsurgery and infertility, recently traveled to Guagzhou, China, […]
by Deborah Huso AOL Health, October 29, 2010 When Amy Tucker of Columbia, Ill., gave birth [news video] to a healthy baby boy last May, she made headlines. The 32-year-old cancer survivor was no ordinary new mom. Thirteen years ago, when Tucker was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, she knew the cancer treatment would leave her […]
By Catherine Donaldson-EvansAOL Health, March 25, 2010 Men who consume a quart of cola — fewer than three 12-ounce cans or two 20-ounce bottles — or more a day have sperm counts that are about 30 percent lower than those of men who don’t, according to a Danish report published March 25 in the American […]
How to Prevent Another Octomom By Aisha Sultan St. Louis Post-Dispatch, February 28, 2009 Up until now, I’ve been pretty glad our government doesn’t dictate who can have a baby or how many babies we’re allowed to have. Then along came Octomom. That’s the media’s moniker for Nadya Suleman, the California single mother who recently […]
Less of a baby boom: After the octuplet baby case By Blythe Bernhard ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, March 11, 2009 Fertility doctors say a proposed law aimed at preventing multiple births wouldn’t change their practices and doesn’t go far enough to help couples struggling to have a baby. In response to the highly publicized case of […]
A top doctor in the field of male infertility speaks about professional success and medical ethics. Aish.com, October 21, 2001 by Aish.com staff Dr. Sherman Silber is a legend in the field of infertility. As a leading international authority on in vitro fertilization and tubal ligation reversal, clients travel from distant lands to his St. […]
S. Silber1,*, Jonathan H. Geisler2 and Minjin Bolortsetseg3 1 Infertility Center of Saint Louis, St Luke’s Hospital, Saint Louis, MO 63017, USA 2New York College of Osteopathic Medicine, Old Westbury, NY 11568, USA 3Institute for the Study of Mongolian Dinosaurs, Ulaanbaatar 14201, Mongolia *Author for correspondence (sharon@infertile.com). Biology Letters, October 27, 2010 Download PDF version […]
St. Luke’s surgery involving twins was the first of its kind By CHERYL WITTENAUER, AP ST. LOUIS (June 8, 2005) – Last year, a fertility specialist at St. Luke’s Hospital performed an ovarian transplant from one identical twin to her infertile sister. It was the first attempt in the United States to transplant an ovary […]
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