by Corey Whelan Just in time for summer, a new report links a widely-used and highly-effective sunscreen ingredient to an increased risk for women of being diagnosed with endometriosis, a leading cause of infertility. The ingredient, benzophenone or BP, is a UV-filter commonly found in a wide ...

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 Corey Whelan If your reproductive endocrinologist offered you the option of doing a less expensive form of In Vitro Fertilization, which not only required less injected medication but also had the same success rate as the more expensive kind, you would probably jump at it.  Especially ...

 by Kristen Magnacca  Last week I received a frantic call from a client whose husband had changed his mind about continuing with infertility treatment. The couple had been trying to conceive for years and had taken on a tremendous financial burden. Their last IVF cycle had failed and ...

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 Iris Waichler             Mother’s day is over now.  For those who are still trying to become a parent it is an incredibly difficult day.  I hope you were able to find someone or something special to do to get the ...

By Sharon MunroeFor the past five years I had a sense that something was different about my experience with having and raising young children. I’d talk about my age a lot, much more than any time in my life. Was that unusual? Many women stop talking about their age after 30, 35 and certainly ...

by Ken Mosesian, Executive Director, The American Fertility Association Over 200 people attended The American Fertility Association’s fund raiser, IlluminationsLA 2012, celebrating those who have made a difference in the areas of fertility and family building. This year, we recognized Dr. ...