Dear Reader, Until now,  I have avoided commercializing this site. No “Donate” button. No Ads. No product endorsements. Except for one. I am pleased to announce the publication of my new “baby”, the e-book Fertility Lab Insider. I have compiled and reorganized the best posts into sections and chapters and added new material. Chapters in [...]

It’s that time of year again when legislatures turn to reproductive issues which by their nature tend to be controversial.  Reproductive rights issues are especially controversial because every individual looks at these issues from their own perspective, based on their own diverse cultural and/or religious upbringing and life experiences. Because there is no one perspective [...]

People have been talking about DIna Roth Port’s article in the February 9, 2011 Huffington Post called Infertility: the disease we need to start talking about. According to her article,  infertility is not mentioned in high school health education classes and is barely mentioned in classes for  medical school students and yet afflicts one in [...]

You may wonder what national healthcare reform will mean to you and your family. Although a few of the simpler reforms have come to pass, such as letting parents keep their adult children on their health insurance longer, most of the reforms have not gone into effect. It will take six years until all the [...]

Dear Readers, When I started this blog in May 2010, I needed a way to keep doing what I loved, namely, the lab part of reproductive medicine. Without a lab and newly unemployed, my blog became my virtual workplace. I have been overwhelmed by some of the wonderful comments I have received over the months, [...]

When our son was born and we were getting ready to go home, our nurse cheerfully cut off his ankle identity band and said, “I’ve removed his tags. He’s yours now. No returns. No refunds”. That was sort of weird but consider this, your  IVF baby may soon be issued her own bar code before [...]

You may want to buy your dear husband a lap desk for his laptop PC or Mac to protect his sperm from overheating. In a new study published in the journal Fertility and Sterility, use of a laptop computer directly on the lap was associated with scrotal hyperthermia or an elevation of scrotal temperature of [...]

The Nobel Prize committee announced today that 85 year old British scientist Robert G. Edwards, PhD was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology for pioneering human in vitro fertilization lab techniques that culminated in the birth of Louise Brown, the world’s first IVF baby.  Robert Edwards partnered with gynecologist, Patrick Steptoe, MD to bring his [...]

Sometimes a virtual hug drops into your In Box like sweet, cool rain on a hot, dry day when your lips are parched and your eyes are burning and you feel like you are shouting in the desert ….(wait- or is that global warming? After more than 3 weeks without rain in the Midwest and [...]

Welcome everyone from “I Com Leave We” . I decided to participate in the week-long comment-leaving party as a kind of community service and to reach out to other bloggers. I am new to blogging as I am sure you realize if you noticed my two *redundant Home tabs!! Apparently, I have redundant code somewhere [...]