Miracle baby: Infertility Center helps paraplegic become a happy father again By Roger Schlueter, Belleville News-Democrat Now that there’s talk of even human cloning, some might find the term “miracle baby” a bit passé. Not Ken and Lori Kreher. As tiny 2-week-old Blake Edward Kreher slept blissfully in his mother’s arms one recent afternoon, “miracle” […]
Motherhood At Mid-Life — A Medical and Ethical Dilema St. Louis Times, July 1997 Much of the world was shocked this past May when news reports out of California unraveled the details of a 63-year-old woman, Arceli Keh, who gave birth to a healthy baby. She is believed to be the world’s oldest new mom. […]
Physicians PracticeMarch 2007 The Infertility Center of St. Louis at St. Luke’s Hospital has a national reputation for excellence primarily because they have brought innovation and advancement to the field of infertility treatment. Led by Sherman Silber, MD, the Infertility Center of St. Louis has pioneered a number of methods to combat infertility that have […]
CF Lifeby Janis Kelly, editor of CF Life Men with cystic fibrosis (CF) are known to be sterile, but a new procedure now allows most to become fathers, according to Sherman J. Silber, MD, Director of the Infertility Center of St. Louis (Missouri). Most men with CF produce perfectly good sperm. The problem is that the […]
By Philippa Jawando-WilliamsStretford Grammar SchoolManchester, England The Przewalski’s horse is the last remaining species of wild horse and is native to Mongolia. The conservation status of the Przewalski’s horse is critically endangered (ICUN 3.1) (1), and there are many reasons for this including loss of habitat and reduced gene diversity. Loss of habitat meant that […]
Genetic screening for disorder offers hope Woman with Marfan’s didn’t want to pass it on Front Page – St. Louis Post Dispatch, January 26, 2003by Deborah L. Shelton Linda Clark is 48 and seven months pregnant. With her daughter’s twins. A pregnancy could have killed Clark’s daughter, Heather Torrens, because she has a severe form […]
“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. […]
Ask The Doctor By Sherman Silber, MD, St. Luke’s Infertility Specialist Health & Harmony Spring/Summer, 2007 Mini-IVF (In Vitro Fertilization) Q. Explain the new, low cost innovative fertility treatment known as mini-IVF. A. Mini-IVF is a new approach to IVF, which was developed in Japan as part of the Kato Clinic-St. Luke’s Collaborative Program. “Mini-IVF” […]
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