A Dozen Embryos!?$#… Who will stop this madness?
Posted by David Kreiner, MD in Cryopreservation, High order Multiple Births, Octomom, SART, Single Embryo Transfer on 19. Aug, 2009 | 6 Comments
Just when I thought it was safe to go back to my office at East Coast Fertility, a little over 5 months post Octomom, I was confronted once again with shocking news. This time it was a record breaking 12 embryos implanted. Eight is alarming and wrong, a dozen just five months later makes me [...]
Through My Eyes: A Historical Perspective of the Birth of IVF
Posted by David Kreiner, MD in Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Dave Kreiner, MD, Dr. Howard and Georgeanna Jones, Journey To The Crib Video Series, Pamela Madsen, The Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine on 23. Jul, 2009 | 0 Comments
Journey To The Crib – Ep. 3 – Giving Birth To IVF at the Jones Institute on Vimeo.
My first day of fellowship training in Reproductive Endocrinology at the Jones Institute was the day the Institute moved from the old quarters at the medical school to their new location at Hoffheimer Hall. Movers carried boxes laden [...]
Medications for IVF Treatment
Posted by David Kreiner, MD in Dave Kreiner, MD, IVF, Infertility Information, Micro IVF on 18. Jun, 2009 | 8 Comments
• The success of IVF largely depends on growing multiple eggs at once
• Injections of the natural hormones FSH and/or LH (gonadotropins) that are normally involved in ovulation every month are used for this purpose
• Additional medications are used to prevent premature ovulation
• An overly vigorous ovarian response can occur, or conversely an inadequate response
Medications [...]
Fertility Drugs Do Not Increase Risk for Ovarian Cancer
Posted by David Kreiner, MD in Research on 04. Mar, 2009 | 69 Comments
I am often asked whether the medications we use in our fertility treatments can cause ovarian cancer. In the past, conflicting stories have been published mainly in the newspapers and non medical magazines. Recently, a scientific forum, Medscape Medical News, reviewed research on this topic and the good news is summarized below.
On February [...]
