By Iris Waichler, M.S.W., L.C.S.W.              In a blog I recently read the author described her “survivor’s guilt”.  She  experienced two pregnancy losses and has been trying to conceive since 2006.  ...

by Corey Whelan I was privileged to attend a Congressional briefing in Washington, D.C. yesterday, specific to toxic chemical exposure and reproductive health.  The briefing was coordinated through the Reproductive Health Technologies Project and the Guttmacher Institute, as well as ...

by Corey Whelan It feels like the whole world is on fire right now.  Civil unrest and natural disasters have been nudging the stressometer up notch by notch in our collective unconsciousness for awhile now, I think.  I remember reading newspaper articles years ago about the Cold War ...

The American Fertility Association congratulates allied non profit organization, The Breast Cancer Fund and the Silent Spring Institute on their groundbreaking new study on BPA exposure and women's health.  The AFA has been sounding the alarm on BPA and other toxins that affect ...

By Kimberly Inez McGuire The first whispers of summer are in the air, foretelling sunny days, sultry nights, and trips to the beach. For better or worse, it also means that many women crowd into salons and spas in a frenzy of pre-summer health and beauty rituals. And it’s no small task ...

by Dana Rudolph I'm very pleased to be joining the many voices here on the AFA Blog. I've been a parent for nearly eight years now, and have been writing about being a lesbian mom for almost six of those, ever since I launched my blog, Mombian, in 2005. My Mombian newspaper column followed in ...

by Corey Whelan More than five million women in America have been diagnosed with  endometriosis, a leading cause of infertility. Endometriosis occurs when the endometrial tissue that lines the inside of the uterus finds its way outside and into other organs of the body, such as the ...

by Corey Whelan We as human beings, universally, seem to share so many commonalities.  We all bleed, both literally and figuratively.  We all need to feel a solidarity of some kind in order to get through our lives.  For many, it is country.  For others, love.  But for ...

by Fred Licciardi, M.D. Thanks for reading yesterday's post.  Here is a little more about Clomid.  Clomid, also known as Serophene, is a very valuable medication, but it can be associated with some nasty side effects. Believe it or not, Clomid was originally devised to be used as a ...

by Fred Licciardi, M.D. A few years ago I was visiting another hospital. When touring the OBGYN department, I ran across a very busy obstetrician in the middle of office hours. He was running form room to room and had a pile of charts in his hands. After her appointment, one of his ...