by Tom O’Neal KTVI Channel 2 St. Louis, July 15, 2010 On May 27th, Amy and Jason Tucker of Columbia, Illinois became the proud parents of a new baby boy [watch news video]. Grant Patrick Tucker weighed in at 6-pounds, 13-ounces. A new baby is not that unusual, but Grant’s story is a bit different. […]
by Dr. Sherman Silber St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June 30, 2010 It’s widely known that as women age, their chances of becoming pregnant decrease. Women older than 38, in particular, often have fewer and lower quality eggs and don’t respond as well as younger women to conventional efforts to produce eggs for in vitro fertilization — […]
S.J. Silber1,4, M. DeRosa1, J. Pineda1, K. Lenahan1, D. Grenia1, K. Gorman2 and R.G. Gosden3 1Infertility Center of St. Louis, 224 South Woods Mill Road St. Louis, 63017 MO, USA; 2Paternity Testing Corporation, 300 Portland Street Columbia, 65201 MO, USA; 3Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, 1305 York Avenue, […]
SECOND CHANCE New Way to Extend Fertility: Freeze Tissue From Ovaries By Sylvia Pagán Westphal Wall Street Journal Online, April 27, 2007 Surgery Could Expand Choices for Women, But Ethics Are Debated Stored at subzero temperatures in a laboratory at St. Luke’s Hospital in St. Louis are eight tiny strips of tissue that were once […]
Rare Horse May Get to be a Dad, Thanks to Area Surgeon by Michele Munz June 18, 2008 Dr. Sherman Silber has long been a trailblazer in fertility. Now the St. Louis – area surgeon is taking his expertise in humans and using it for endangered animals. Silber has performed the first successful reverse vasectomy […]
Doctor from St. Luke’s Hospital will be the first to try the live transplant in the United States to help infertile woman. Front Page – St. Louis Post Dispatch, April 21, 2004by Tina Hesman of the Post-Dispatch A St. Louis fertility specialist is set to perform a transplant today that may be the ultimate “gift […]
Beating the Clock? Frozen Ovaries Make Headlines By Cindy Haines, M.D., Special to the Beacon St. Louis Beacon, November 14, 2008 More women are waiting to start their families, delaying pregnancy until their mid- to late-30s, 40s and beyond. While pregnancy in a woman’s later years can carry some complications, “the biggest risk of delaying […]
by Sophia Banay Moura Marie Claire, July 2010 What if you are ready for baby-making but freaked by the thought of infertility? We got the scoop on the newest reproductive technologies out there from the doctor who performed the first-ever successful ovary transplant. So whether or not you’ve got babies on the brain, we’ve got […]
By Julia Evangelou Straitstlbeacon.org, November 12, 2009 As far back as Sherman Silber can remember, his parents told him he wanted to be a doctor. “They pounded it into me!” said Silber with a laugh. “There was a tremendous parental push. But I’m really happy for it,” he said. “I was a Jewish boy in […]
See also: Rare Horse May Get to be a Dad, Thanks to Area Surgeon From the St. Louis Post Dispatch Horse Health Makes Headlines From The Jurga Report Vasectomy Reversal In Vitro Fertilization (IVF)
Summary of Berlin International Congress March 21-23, 2013, Organized by Dr. A. Arav (Israel), Dr. A. Cobo (Spain), Dr. J. Donnez (Belgium), Dr. N. Noyes (USA), Dr. P. Patrizio (USA), Dr. Z. Shoham (Israel), Dr. G. Vajta (Australia), and Dr. Sherman Silber (USA) April 19, 2013 This was a unique gathering in Europe of the […]
St. Luke’s Hospital Named One of America’s 50 Best Hospitals for Fourth Year in a Row St. Luke’s Hospital Press Release CHESTERFIELD, MO, February 24, 2010 – For the fourth year in a row, St. Luke’s Hospital is the only Missouri hospital to be named on the HealthGrades list of America’s 50 Best Hospitals. The […]
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