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What You Should Know About Freezing Your Eggs

Advances in fertility care and technology offer an opportunity to take control of your reproductive health and postpone pregnancy until a later date. Freezing healthy eggs at an early age…

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Frequently Asked Questions About Egg Freezing

I am a 35-year-old single woman and want to learn more about my fertility options, including choosing to conceive now or freezing embryos or eggs for future use. In the…

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What is Ovarian Reserve and What Does it Mean?

How Many Eggs Do I Have? The number of oocytes (eggs) a woman has reaches a maximum of approximately 8 million when she was a 20 week fetus. By the…

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Preservation of Eggs and Sperm

Preservation of eggs and sperm is now a component of the discussions in women and in men who wish to preserve their reproductive capacity. Our ability to cryopreserve and reliably…

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Safe With FCNE: Our Management of Cryopreserved Eggs and Embryos

Though the exact details remain unclear, the recent events highlighted in the news have certainly raised concerns regarding the management and safety of cryopreserved specimens. After cryopreservation, oocytes or embryos…

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Fertility Preservation

Reproductive capacity is an age dependent process and is influenced by different conditions, some genetic and many not. The idea of fertility preservation may, in fact, be a misnomer and…

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Do Women Know They Can Freeze Their Eggs?

A recent study in Human Reproduction researched the awareness of egg freezing among women. Do women know they can freeze their eggs? The study found that many women who might desire…

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Fresh Versus Frozen Eggs

Fresh versus frozen eggs? Egg freezing by oocyte vitrification is a major innovation for potentially preserving a woman’s future fertility especially in young women needing ovarian-toxic treatments and for those…

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Benefits of Freezing Eggs

A recent article in New York magazine highlighted the benefits of freezing eggs before the age of 37. This article emphasized that freezing eggs between age of 30 and 34…

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