Every issue of the VOICE slowly drifts towards more professional subjects, peaking with the literature review, which, primarily addresses physicians and scientists.
If you’re struggling with infertility, you might be wondering if your diagnosis is correct or if you have the right treatment plan. Take a moment to find out what a second opinion can do for you.
CHR offers the safe transfer of existing frozen embryos into our facility, ensuring continuity of care for patients affected by the suspension of IVF services in Alabama.
Follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) is a key player in both your reproductive health and fertility. Keep reading to find out what your levels of this hormone indicate.
Testing your anti-Mullerian hormone (AMH) levels can provide a lot of information about your ovarian reserve. Find out if you’d be a good candidate for an AMH test here.
If you and your partner have been struggling with infertility, you may be wondering what could possibly be causing it. We discuss the causes of infertility here, including some you might not be familiar with.
One of the first steps you take in getting to the bottom of male infertility is undergoing a semen analysis. Let’s look at what this fertility testing can tell you.
We want to thank the unusually large number of readers who commented on our September issue in writing to us. Of course, we welcome any kind of response, however short it may be.
If you’re struggling with infertility due to issues with ovulation, you’re not alone. Many women face this incredibly widespread problem. Thankfully, certain medications can help.
After our annual summer break during July and August, we welcome you reenergized and ready to rock’n’roll with our September issue into the new academic year 2023/2024.
LGBTQ+ family planning may require a special approach. Thankfully, there are enough options available that there’s sure to be one right for you and your family. Here are five options we offer for LGBTQ+ individuals to expand their family.
The function of your fallopian tubes plays a huge role in being able to achieve pregnancy. Here, we discuss more about how tubal perfusion pressure and endometriosis are linked to infertility.
As you age, your chance of getting pregnant decreases. However, this doesn’t mean it’s impossible. If you’re over 40 and want to have a child, we offer some tips on how to optimize your fertility here.
We are pleased to publish our June Voice, The CHR VOICE. This is the last issue for the 2022/2023 academic year before we take a publication break during July and August (unless really something very important is happening).
IVF can be a very difficult journey, and it may be tricky to know how to support your partner through it all. We offer some ways you can be there for each other every step of the way.
Research suggests that getting medical second opinions is vital for proper diagnoses. So, if you’ve been thinking about seeking out another opinion on your fertility treatments, here’s how to know it’s the right time.
As always, we are delighted to welcome all of our readers to a new issue of The CHR VOICE. Our May issue is again made up of a compendium of articles that will hopefully satisfy the broad spectrum of our readership, made up of current and past CHR patients
We very enthusiastically welcome you to the April issue of The CHR VOICE because, over the last month, we had the opportunity to put together our most expansive issue so far (44 pages).
We welcome all of our readers to the March issue of The CHR VOICE, which, as usual, in the new and expanded format offers a broad potpourri of articles for patients and laypeople as well as professional physicians and scientists working in reproductive med
We are very pleased to offer the February 2023 issue of THE CHR VOICE and want to take the opportunity of this introduction to direct the attention of our readers...
We are pleased to present here the June issue of the CHR VOICE, after which we traditionally start a two-month summer hiatus for this newsletter, returning to our regular monthly publication schedule with the start of the new 2022-2023...
March was an unusually busy month at the CHR and not only
clinically. CHR’s investigators saw several important papers
published, with one in NATURE Medicine, in detail presented
in the March issue of the VOICE, receiving unusual media attention
Fertility center reports excellent pregnancy and live birth rates from transfers of embryos by preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy (PGT-A) reported to be “chromosomal abnormal” and, therefore, at other IVF centers refused transfer
With Spring per schedule knocking on the door, the mood in the world feels anything but spring-like. The deadly and cruel Russian war machine is already for weeks invading the independent country of Ukraine.
In the shortest and traditionally coldest month of the year, we welcome you to the February issue of our monthly newsletter. Hopefully, history will show that we reached a point in the Covid-19 pandemic with more hope than at any time slot before.
With the year 2021 coming to its end, most of us will agree that this was not a very good year to remember. We can only hope that 2022 will allow the world to return to more traditional living and working conditions, schooling, social interactions as well
With Thanksgiving just around the corner, we here at the CHR for the second year in a row are missing out on the hectic last-minute preparations for our annual conference in New York City on reproductive biology and endocrinology, the CHR until 2019 co-hos
We welcome our readers to the October issue of the VOICE, we hope again packed with interesting and relevant information for patients, colleagues, and any other party interested in reproductive sciences and clinical infertility. October is ...
We are pleased to welcome you to the first issue of the VOICE for the academic year 2021/2022. A new publishing team has taken over, and differences in style and content distribution will, therefore, become quickly apparent. Hopefully also very apparent...
Struggles to get to the clinic? Trying to reduce your exposure to COVID-19, as well as other contagious illnesses, and still need to see your doctor? Telehealth is safe and easy — receive quality care from anywhere.
Cortisol is one of several hormones produced by the adrenal glands, sitting on top of both kidneys. Learn more about the importance of cortisol levels during IVF.
The literature suggests that so far over 8 million humans on this earth were conceived through In Vitro Fertilization (IVF), and the numbers are, of course, growing.
For American Heart Month, we felt it was time to address the fact that cardiovascular diseases are the most frequent cause of maternal death in pregnancy.
In this section we attempt to draw attention to science papers we perceive as potentially important for the basic understanding of reproductive biology and, therefore, may have translational relevance to ...
New York City and a big part of the country are quickly coming back to almost normal, as case numbers, hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19 are quickly dropping.
Most of the COVID-19 news these days is positive: new infections in the U.S. and countries, like Israel, have been declining rapidly and, with its deaths from the disease.
The appropriate role of profit incentives on medical practice has been, and will remain for some time to come, the central theme in every discussion of national health care, - whatever the system.
Two prominent voices in the fertility field known as longstanding supporters of mild ovarian stimulation were at it once again (Nargund and Fauser, Reprod Biomed Online 2020;41:569-571) when publishing an editorial with ...
In a published letter (_Santoro et al Reprod Sciences 2021; https:/doi.org/10.1007/s43032-021-00491-_9), a small group of prominent physicians, scientists, and ethicists in reproductive medicine urged ...
It is 42 years from the birth of the first IVF offspring and the world is now already approaching 10 million IVF births. There are few, if any, new medical treatments that can point toward such enormous success.
Access To Fertility Coverage Expanded By New York State For Same Sex Couples As Part Of 2021 Women’s Agenda And New York Child Parent Security Act (Cpsa) Went Into Effect
In this issue, we continue to offer what we consider the most important news relating to the infertility field and/or reproductive biology in the preceding month.
For some time, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) has in the literature been considered a risk factor for male infertility; but up to this point it was not very clear ...
No question in IVF has been as thoroughly investigated as this question and the repeated answer has practically always been the same: there is no evidence that even large numbers of repeat IVF cycles increase cancer risks!
That the World Health Organization (WHO) needs help, has been rather obvious for some time. Whether its disastrous performance at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic was professional incompetence or ...
Based on feedback from our readers, each month we will be highlighting what we consider the most important news for fertility patients and professionals working in the field.
In December, *ASRM issued the first clinical recommendation from its COVID-19 Task Force which “did not recommend withholding the (anti-COVID-19) vaccine from patients who are planning to ...
Human growth hormone (HGH) has over the last decade returned to popularity in IVF cycles and is increasingly utilized at many IVF centers, including at CHR.
The VOICE is getting an upgrade! Based on feedback from our readers, each month we will be highlighting what we consider the most important news for fertility patients and professionals working in the field.
Prominent physicians and scientists criticize continued utilization of Preimplantation Genetic Testing for Aneuploidy (PGT-A) in IVF and warn about a new fourth generation test
Dr. Gleicher joins two prominent colleagues in warning against the widespread utilization of PGT-A, in an opinion paper just published in Trends in Molecular Medicine.
EcoDEP, CHR's frozen donor egg program that offers a lower-cost alternative to traditional (fresh) egg donor program, has a limited number of donor eggs immediately available to recipients.
As we head into the holiday season many of us find ourselves, as we have for some time, ready for the year to end, hoping for a more normal 2021. But what a year 2020 has been!
Here is for once a somewhat happy COVID-19 pandemic story. At already somewhat advanced age, I am still an actively practicing physician-scientist in New York City, since April regularly tested ...
One of the most frequently asked question in, likely, every fertility center is this: Doctor, should I change my diet? For the longest time there was really no good answer to this question ...
The SARS-CoV-2 virus, causing the current COVID-19 pandemic, is now almost 8 months among us. It has changed everything almost everywhere in the world.
Harvard University's Petrie-Flom Center is hosing a webinar on IVF add-ons on November 10, 2020 at noon EST. Dr. Gleicher is a panelist on the webinar.
Since our September issue was completely dedicated to COVID-19, here is, for all practical purposes, our first regular issue of the VOICE in the 2020/2021 academic year, and what an academic year ...
CHR recently announced and registered a third PRP trial. For those who do not recall our prior discussions of PRP (platelet-rich plasma) in these pages, here is a quick ...
Mostly unnoticed and/or unmentioned by media, because of what has been happening in many countries to national health care systems (the U.S. included), brought on by the COVID-19 ...
The chance of pregnancy in an IVF cycle, of course, depend on many factors. Two often related factors, however, dominate: female age and functional ovarian reserve.
Study in NYC suggests that the city, likely, has already reached an adequate level of herd immunity to prevent a significant second wave of COVID-19 in the fall
Over the long July 4th weekend, The New York Times (July 5, 2020, pages 15-18) published a revealing lead article, documenting the stealthy nature of the COVID-19 epidemic in the U.S.
In this month's CHR VOICE, we discuss what it means to "follow science" and continue our series on fertility treatments for women with low functional ovarian reserve.
New study suggests a lower immunity level in the community than the typically quoted 60%, gauged by antibody tests, may be sufficient to protect everyone from COVID-19, as new case numbers surge in southwestern US states.
Not at all unexpected, COVID-19 infections have significantly rebounded with, unquestionably, a very profound degree of community spread being the underlying cause.
Media reports from all over the world suggest that we may be at the beginning of a second COVID-19 wave, while some epidemiologists/public health experts have suggested ...