It used to be that characters on popular television shows would find out in one episode that they’ve miscarried or can’t have children for one reason or another and in the next episode, they are adopting. Is any progress being made?
It was frustrating that they didn’t cover treating infertility or they treated it so lightly that no one could really grasp how all-encompassing the process truly is, but it may be changing for the better.
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Article: Infertility and the media
Tuesday, May 14th, 2013Tags: infertility, parenthood, surrogacy, third party reproduction, trying to conceive
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Khloe Kardashian Says She Isn’t Struggling With Infertility: Hormones And Timing Have Been ‘Off’
Wednesday, May 8th, 2013Khloe Kardashian has been unsuccessfully trying to have a baby for three and a half years, but she claims the reason she hasn’t gotten pregnant yet isn’t because of infertility issues.
The 28-year-old reality star, who is married to NBA star Lamar Odom, opens up about the difficulties she has encountered trying to get pregnant in the June 2013 issue of REDBOOK, admitting that she isn’t infertile, but that her hormones, as well as the timing have just been off and her busyschedule has prevented her from pursuing the proper hormonal treatments – and RadarOnline.com has the details.
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Careers and Egg Freezing
Tuesday, April 30th, 2013CNN- With egg freezing, women can use their own banked eggs later in life to effectively rewind their biological clock, becoming mothers in their 40s, 50s and beyond. It’s a technological game changer that just might allow women to defy the notion that they can’t have it all. Read this thought provoking article which weighs the pros and cons of delaying familybuilding.
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Sofia Vergara Freezing Her Eggs: Is It a Good Idea?
Monday, March 25th, 2013In an interview in the April issue of Vogue magazine, “Modern Family” actress Sofia Vergara revealed that she is not only interested in having more kids, she is freezing her eggs in order to do so. Vergara, 40, who already has a 21-year-old son, told the publication, “They want to get as many good eggs as they can because usually you produce them but they’re not good. They have to be perfect, perfect, perfect ones.” Vergara noted that, “My boyfriend [Nick Loeb] is 37, younger than me, never had kids.”
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UK To Be First Country To Allow Three-Person IVF?
Friday, March 22nd, 2013The UK could be the first country to allow IVF babies to be created using DNA from three people.
This is currently illegal, but a UK fertility watchdog is lobbying health secretary Jeremy Hunt to lift the ban in order to stop a genetic defect.
Despite fears of ‘genetic engineering’ from some quarters, The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has told the government there is no evidence three-person IVF is unsafe.
Lifting the ban would allow people with genetic mitochondiral disorders the hope of having a family.
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8 Things to STOP doing in Support of Your Friend with Secondary Infertility
Wednesday, February 6th, 2013A few weeks ago, we posted some ideas of things that can be done in order to assist a friend or loved one facing infertility, but just as important is remembering what NOT to do. Here are some ideas.
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Few cancer patients offered fertility preservation during treatment
Tuesday, January 8th, 2013A study published in the September issue of the medical journal Cancer found that only 61 percent of women ages 18 to 40 were counseled on the risk of infertility because of cancer treatment. Just 4 percent pursued fertility preservation.
The study was based on 1,041 women diagnosed with five types of cancer — leukemia, Hodgkin’s disease, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and breast and gastrointestinal cancers.
“Although awareness of fertility preservation has improved in the past decade, an unmet need remains for reproductive health counseling and fertility preservation in reproductive-age women diagnosed with cancer,” the report concluded.
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It’s Not Too Early to Talk About Freezing Your Eggs
Tuesday, December 4th, 2012When Anne-Marie Slaughter — Princeton professor, former Director of Policy Planning for the U.S. State Department, and mother of two — spoke to a mostly female crowd this past Monday night in D.C., she had this advice to young women entering the workplace and worried about the inevitable entanglement of personal and professional life: “Freeze your eggs.”
She brought up this idea in her article, “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All,” and it’s not as out-there as it sounds. While society is no closer to making it possible for women to delay their careers, the technology that enable us to put off having kids has already arrived. This October, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine transitioned egg freezing, or “oocyte cryopreservation,” away from the classification of “experimental.”
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Advice for Men Struggling With Infertility
Tuesday, November 27th, 2012While women are often the first to undergo a battery of tests when conception is slow to happen, almost half of all infertility problems are directly attributed to the male. Low sperm count is the most common culprit, so analyzing sperm count is considered a key first step by infertility specialists. However, a new survey conducted for SpermCheck Fertility, the only FDA-approved at-home sperm count screening test, finds that only 17 percent of men ever get tested.
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Texas Couple Auctioning Football Card to Pay for IVF
Wednesday, October 17th, 2012A Texas couple hope the auction of a one-of-a-kind football card will fund a final attempt at in vitro fertilization, a goal that the NFL Hall of Famer on the card fully supports.
Todd and Ula Nelkin of Houston have been trying to have a baby for several years. When they were unable to conceive naturally, they turned to IVF, but suffered two failed attempts.
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