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. […]
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 […]
“Local doctor pioneers ovary transplants” ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, February 12, 2007 by Tina Hesman Saey When Dr. Sherman Silber made history in 2004 by transplanting ovarian tissue from a twin into her identical sister, he said it was a unique case that he wouldn’t repeat. He changed his mind. Six sets of twins are glad […]
By James Randerson, science correspondent, guardian.co.uk November 9, 2008 A 38-year-old woman is due to give birth next week after the first ever whole ovary transplant to result in a successful pregnancy. The woman, who lives in London and whose ovaries stopped working when she was 15, became pregnant just over a year after receiving […]
“Baby Due as a Result of First Ever Whole Ovary Transplant” News-Medical.net, November 9, 2008 In what is thought to be a world-first, a British woman who was given an ovary transplant is about to give birth to her first baby. The 38-year-old Londoner underwent the pioneering whole ovary transplant in the U.S. early last […]
Baby Born After Ovary Transplant BBC, November 12, 2008 It has been reported that a healthy baby girl has been born in London, following the world’s first transplant of an entire ovary. The 39-year-old mother conceived naturally after receiving the ovary from her twin sister. Others have given birth after receiving smaller pieces of ovarian […]
Ovary Transplant Baby, ‘A Miracle’ BBC, November 15th, 2008 The first woman in the world to have a whole ovary transplant has spoken of her delight at giving birth to a healthy baby girl. Susanne Butscher was given the ovary by her twin sister Dorothee a year ago, after developing early menopause. She gave birth […]
Ovary-Transplant Birth By Jonathan Owen The Independent, November 16, 2008 News of the world’s first baby born after a remarkable ovary transplant operation offered hope last night to millions of women around the world with fertility problems, including more than 100,000 women in the UK who suffer from early menopause and those undergoing chemotherapy or radiotherapy […]
A Fertility First: Human Egg Cells Grow Up in Lab By Hadley LeggettWired.com, July 14, 2009 For the first time, scientists have managed to grow mature human eggs from immature cells in the lab, a technique that may eventually help save the fertility of female cancer patients who aren’t eligible for traditional egg harvest. Researchers […]
First Child Was Born After Fertility Treatment, but Second Child Was Conceived Naturally by Kathleen Doheny WebMD Health News, February 24, 2010 A former cancer patient in Denmark who had an ovarian transplant and gave birth to a daughter after IVF has had another child who was conceived naturally. The news did not surprise a […]
July 16, 2010 Thirteen years ago, when Amy Tucker was 19 years old, she faced a diagnosis of advanced cancer and the certainty of never having children, even if her cancer could be cured. Today, Tucker is cancer-free. She is also the mother of a beautiful baby boy, thanks to fertility preservation procedures performed by […]
by Kelsey Volkmann July 16, 2010 A Columbia, Ill., woman is the first cancer survivor in the United States to give birth to a baby as a result of ovary freezing and transplantation, thanks to fertility preservation procedures performed at St. Luke’s Hospital in Chesterfield. Thirteen years ago, when Amy Tucker, then 19, was diagnosed […]