By Victoria Lambert The London Daily Telegraph Sunday Magazine, November 26, 2009 As an increasing number of women delay motherhood at the risk of losing their fertility, one doctor believes he has found the answer: pausing biological time by freezing ovarian tissue. Victoria Lambert sees him at work. A small, warm-faced man, with sharp darting […]
“Ovary Transplants Could Transform Family Life” by Dr. Sherman Silber, Infertility Specialist & Surgeon Telegraph.co.uk, December 18, 2008 The birth of a baby girl after her mother was the first woman to receive an ovary transplant has been the culmination of ten years of work on freezing and transplanting ovaries and it’s thrilling. We have […]
Doctor Pioneers New Way to Extend Fertility: Freeze Ovary Tissue By Sylvia Pagán Westphal Wall Street Journal, April 26, 2007 Stored at subzero temperatures in a laboratory at St. Luke’s Hospital in St. Louis are eight tiny strips of tissue that were once part of Amy Johnson’s ovaries. Ms. Johnson, 34 years old, plans to […]
LIFESTYLES MAGAZINE Pre-Spring 1999, vol. 27, no. 160 Download a PDF version of this article. The Physician’s Prayer Maimonides 1135 .1204 C.E. “Almighty God Before I begin in my holy labor To heal the work of Your hands I place my supplication Before Your awesome majesty.” You’ve heard of JTS-Jewish Standard Time? Jewish events have […]
Summary of Hong Kong Meeting February 1-3, 2013, Chaired by Dr. Milton Leong from Hong Kong and Professor Sherman Silber from the USA February 10, 2013 This was a unique gathering of East and West of the greatest scientists and clinicians working on fertility preservation and stem cell biology to produce eggs and sperm (gametes). […]
KSDK Channel 5, July 16, 2010 Amy Tucker, of Columbia, Illinois, became the first cancer survivor in the United States to give birth [watch news video] thanks to fertility preservation procedures performed by a doctor at St. Luke’s Hospital in Chesterfield. Tucker was 19 years old when she was diagnosed with cancer and told she could […]
National Zoo Switcheroo: Gelding Is a Stallion Again by Fran JurgaMonday, June 16, 2008 The National Zoo is reporting that it reversed an equine vasectomy procedure performed on Minnesota, an endangered male Przewalski’s Horse in the zoo’s herd. This is the first procedure of its kind to be performed on an endangered equid species. “The […]
By Chad GarrisonThe Riverfront TimesOctober 4, 2007 Dr. Sherman Silber says he can extend a woman’s fertility by decades. All he needs is an ovary and some ice. On Monday, August 27, Ashley Perkins got the news she feared most: The lump that surfaced on her neck this summer tested positive for lymphoma. The 23-year-old […]
“Woman Gives Twin Ovary for Transplant”By CHERYL WITTENAUER, AP ST. LOUIS (April 23) – Melanie Morgan and Stephanie Yarber are 24-year-old identical twins and best friends. They look alike, pull their hair back in ponytails the same way, and finish each other’s sentences. The one thing they don’t share is the ability to have children. […]
Cross-cultural Fertilization: Dr. Sherman Silber Takes His Reproductive Technology to China By Jeannette Cooperman St. Louis Magazine, August 2012 When I was 20, and I learned that my body was storing about 400,000 eggs for the future, I imagined my ovaries as velvet pouches bulging with tiny pearls. Once a month, the drawstring would open […]
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 pregnancy is not being able to get […]
by Dr. Lux Fatimathas BioNews.org.ukJuly 4, 2010 European researchers have linked strong ovarian stimulation in women aged over 35 to increased chromosomal abnormalities. Genetic screening shows that the production of good quality oocytes in older women is disrupted during fertility treatment involving conventional ovarian stimulation. This process uses hormones to promote the release of a greater number of […]
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