by Corey Whelan As part of the initial infertility work-up, your physician will wish to schedule a hysterosalpingogram, or HSG. The HSG is a type of x-ray test, designed to give your doctor a view inside your uterus, fallopian tubes and the surrounding area, in order to check for obstructions and ...

By S. Fenella Das Gupta, Ph.D., Neuroscience The malignant growth that is cancer does not discriminate—a person of any race, creed, color, nationality, marital status, gender, sexual orientation, disability or socioeconomic status can be affected.    Our healthcare system does ...

by Corey Whelan The ASRM Office of Public Affairs has released information on a large, population-based study done in Australia, linking In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) to breast cancer in young women.  The study, led by Louise M. Stewart, B.Sc., utilized data from over 21,000 women and ...

by Fenella Das Gupta, PH.D., Neuroscience The Campaign Ad: “ We started off like most other couples. First we dated, then we married, and then started talking about having a baby. One baby would make our family complete but, we’ve recently been diagnosis of Infertility. We feel ...

by S. Fenella Das Gupta, Ph.D., Neuroscience I would like to introduce to you Vanessa Loring. Although her name may not sound familiar, you may in fact know her- She’s the character played by Jennifer Garner in the movie Juno. Juno is a film about a sixteen-year-old girl confronting an ...

By Fenella Das Gupta, Ph.D., Neuroscience     “ You HAVE to see this!” was the comment posted with a link on my Facebook wall. Now armed with a good excuse to avoid doing laundry, I clicked and the You Tube video viral “Sh*t White Girls Say To Black Girls” ...

  by Kristen Magnacca Have you seen The AFA’s Infertility Awareness stamp!  Boy, have we come a long way!   Fertility awareness on a stamp: talk about making strides in the shift in conscientious  about fertility and creation.    I remember ...

by Patricia Mendell, LCSW Wouldn’t it be wonderful if there was one Global Navigation System (GPS) for IVF (In-vitro Fertilization) programs? It could make the experience faster, simpler and more accurate.  You would never fear that valuable time would be lost as your biological clock ...

by Corey Whelan I started losing friends to breast cancer when I was in my thirties.  One of the lowest points I experienced during my infertility struggle was coping with my friend Sheila's abortion; she had late stage breast cancer at the time and a pregnancy would have hastened her ...

Second in a series on endometriosis, for Endometriosis Awareness Month. More than five million women in America are currently suffering from endometriosis, which is a leading cause of infertility.  Endometriosis occurs when the endometrial tissue that lines the inside of the uterus finds its ...