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Posted by Dr. Kreiner in News on 20. Oct, 2010 | 1 Comment
It’s now official. News Corp. has pulled the plug on Cablevision customers by turned off the signal of FOX and My Nine affecting 3 million viewers in the New York Metropolitan area. My wife and daughters are distraught. Their favorite television show; Glee, not to mention critical sports shows and [...]
Posted by Dr. Kreiner in Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Egg Donation, Infertility Information, Treating Infertility on 18. Oct, 2010 | 2 Comments
It has been my experience as well as that of others in the field that many individuals conceived through gamete donation are curious about their donor and the donor’s other offspring. They may fantasize about their genetic parent and siblings. They are curious if they look like them and have similar behavioral traits. [...]
Posted by Dr. Kreiner in Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Egg Donation, IVF, Infertility Information, Sperm Donation on 13. Oct, 2010 | 2 Comments
I received this letter from a former donor egg recipient. It made me think about what it might be like, years after the actual procedure for a child who grows up wondering about his/her donor parent.
Dear Dr. Kreiner,
I want to thank you and your wonderfully caring staff for all you did to [...]
Posted by Dr. Kreiner in Assisted Reproductive Technologies, IVF, Treating Infertility on 12. Oct, 2010 | No Comments
Dr. Robert Edwards, the IVF pioneer responsible for the first successful IVF in the world, was announced as the recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize for physiology. Dr. Edwards’ successful development of IVF technology was originally received by the public media as more science fiction than science. As a first year medical student [...]
Posted by Dr. Kreiner in Mind-Body Fertility Connection on 31. Aug, 2010 | 11 Comments
The old fertility legend about a couple who had failed fertility treatments, adopts a baby and then all of a sudden gets pregnant is one we have all heard.
In fact, as a practicing reproductive endocrinologist over the past 25 years, I have experienced this with some of my own patients.
Those stories have led us to [...]
