An end to male sterility? IVF News, Volume 6, No. 2, 1995 There are very few sterile men who cannot now father their own children, according to Dr. Sherman Silber and his partner colleagues at the Free University of Brussels. In a dramatic presentation to the World IVF Congress (held in Vienna in May) Dr. […]
Some explorers are born, some are made. Dr. Sherman Silber falls into the latter category. He was a self-described “big-city bookworm” at 25 when he went to do work in the public health service in Alaska. That job was the start of a lifelong fascination with aboriginal people and with what happens when modern and […]
Bearing Dreams: How one doctor turned St. Louis into the infertility treatment capital of the world. St. Louis Commerce Magazine, November 2004 by Sue Britt Dr. Sherman Silber says he knew he would be a doctor when he was 5 or 6 — because his parents told him so. Since then, it has been a […]
by Matias Loewy Newsweek En Espanol, December 7, 2012 According with a new provocative theory the giant reptiles were extinguished because (and for no other reason than) they were left without females to mate. About 65 million years ago, the dinosaurs, which had dominated the earth for a period of 70 times longer than the […]
by Patricia Corrigan Jewish Light, September 2010 An internationally renowned infertility specialist, Dr. Sherman Silber invented most of the modern infertility treatments — including vasectomy reversal and tubal ligation reversal — and he developed microsurgical sperm retrieval for men who were thought to have no sperm. He also has improved dramatically the success rate for […]
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 — […]
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 […]
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