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Your Lifestyle Affects Your Fertility

A recent paper in the January issue of Fertility and Sterility continues to point to the negative effects of smoking, weight extremes, alcohol use, and stress on pregnancy rates in…

Letrozole May Induce Ovulation

Ovulation is critical to achieving a natural pregnancy. Ovulation dysfunction is one of the primary causes of infertility. Clomiphene citrate (clomid) has been used for decades to induce ovulation in…

Stopping Smoking Prior to Attempting to Conceive

As alluded to in an earlier blog, clearly there are both actions and inactions that affect the ability to conceive as well as the conceptus itself. This particular blog centers…

Why We Prefer Transferring A Single Embryo

Many women ask why we prefer transferring a single embryo into women less than 35 years of age, encourage this in women under 38 and leave it as an option…

Mother-Baby Complications in Older Women

First pregnancies in women over 35 years of age are the highest percentage since statistics have been kept. First pregnancies in women over age 40 have also never been higher…

How the Environment May Affect Fertility

The causes of infertility and our ability to both treat and to overcome them have change over the past two decades. Optimization of medications afforded and laboratory equipment, experience and…

How IVF Assist Made One Couple’s Dream Come True

Ashley and Rick are your typical American couple in their early thirties. She’s a registered nurse, and he is a submarine mechanic for the Navy. They were ready to start…

Can Endometrial Scratching Boost IVF Success Rates?

When a patient or couple begins an IVF cycle, we are always hopeful that success will be achieved in the very first cycle. Despite excellent pregnancy rates, some patients may…

Does the Affordable Care Act Translate Into Affordable Fertility Benefits?

The impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) are not yet understood, with the majority of law taking effect this year. What remains to be clarified is…

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