Avoiding IVF Disasters: Are Your Embryos in Safe Hands?
Posted by Dr. David Kreiner in Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Embryo Transfer, IVF, Infertility Information, Laboratory, Treating Infertility on 22. Mar, 2011 | 0 Comments
Practicing medicine for the past 30 years, I have developed an enormous respect for those things that happen to people that are beyond our control. Sometimes, the issue of preventability is a gray one and defies definitive blame assignment. Yet, when the dust settles there remain victims who are harmed for whom we are all [...]
What Do You Know About Your Fertility? – Part 2, Fertility Screening
Posted by David Kreiner, MD in Fertility Screening, Infertility Information on 05. Jan, 2010 | 5 Comments
What Do You Know About Fertility Screening?
Statistics and general truths aside, every woman is unique. Given just how complicated it is to make a baby in the first place, understanding your own body’s reproductive capability and the changes it might undergo from year to year is an invaluable planning tool.
Consider an annual fertility evaluation or [...]
What Do You Know About Your Fertility? – Part 1, Biological Clock
Posted by David Kreiner, MD in Age Related Infertility, Infertility Information on 04. Jan, 2010 | 2 Comments
What Do You Know About Your Biological Clock?
Women have a biological clock. Everyone knows that. The problem is that a lot of the information people think they know about their fertility and reproduction is not true. The blurring of fact, opinion, myth and misunderstanding makes for a treacherous misinformation landscape. The knowledge gap [...]
Endometriosis and Your Fertility
Posted by David Kreiner, MD in Endometriosis on 16. Dec, 2009 | 4 Comments
Endometriosis has made the news lately because Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi has stepped up to use her celebrity to shed light on this disease.
I don’t have to tell you that endometriosis can be a very painful illness and that it can cause infertility. It is often a reproductive lifelong struggle in which tissue that [...]
There’s No Business Like Show Business, Except Fertility
Posted by David Kreiner, MD in IVF, News, Octomom, Single Embryo Transfer on 03. Dec, 2009 | 2 Comments
The Fertility news is constantly highlighted in sensational headlines, the most recent of which was, “49 year old woman conceives with own egg through IVF”. In the past several months, readers have been entertained with “Octomom”, “a woman pregnant with a supposed dozen”, “Jon and Kate plus eight” and “a 62 year old mother [...]
