Administration of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines was not associated with an adverse effect on stimulation or early pregnancy outcomes after IVF.
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9 Months
I’ve been avidly watching 9 Months with Courteney Cox on Facebook Watch since Season 1. It’s one of the best pregnancy journey shows I’ve ever seen. Courteney Cox, best known as Monica on Friends, had her own journey to parenthood with recurrent pregnancy loss before having her daughter Coco through IVF. Some of the couples …
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Infertility in The Media: Cryopreservation
My husband was watching The Rookie (Season 1 Episode 13 · Caught Stealing), and my ears perk up when I hear the words “fertility center.” Plot line is a lesbian couple that separated, and one partner stole the embryos from the center. There are two great aspects of talk about here, and both get a …
Continue ReadingInfertility In the Media – Private Life
When Private Life came out in 2018, it got a ton of media attention for being a movie that not only addressed the elephant of infertility but was actually about infertility. Infertility was not a subplot or a punchline, it was represented in-depth of how consuming it is to the people living the experience. So …
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Infertility in the Media: Semen Analysis
For anyone who has met me, I am a very passionate individual. If you get me on a roll about a topic that interests me, it can sometimes be hard to slow me down. One topic I can talk about endlessly is the representation of infertility in the media. I get incredibly excited when I …
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STUDY ON THE COVID-19 VACCINES AND THEIR EFFECT ON MALE FERTILITY
The Miller School of Medicine at University of Miami is studying what effect, if any, the COVID-19 vaccines might have on sperm. The study’s principal investigator, Ranjith Ramasamy, M.D. is an associate professor and director of reproductive urology. “Based on the mechanism by which mRNA acts, we do not expect the COVID-19 vaccines will have …
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Hope for Infertile Couples: Advanced Sperm Search
Extended Sperm Search and Microfreeze (ESSM) is a revolutionary procedure that can detect sperm in previously diagnosed azoospermic men. The procedure is non-invasive, painless, and has found sperm in up to 44% of cases. Here’s a break down of the process and equipment we use in our lab to perform this procedure. THE INVERTED MICROSCOPE …
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The Results Are In: Sperm Found in 37% of Azoospermic Patients
We’re proud to have just completed a very successful Year 1 of performing Extended Sperm Search and Microfreeze (ESSM) procedures at Maze Health. We have worked with a wide variety of patients this year and are excited to share some of our outcomes. What is ESSM? ESSM is a revolutionary semen evaluation and processing technique …
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Slow Freeze vs Microfreeze
The successful freezing and thawing of reproductive tissue first occurred in the 1950s. The method implemented then, which we now refer to as ‘slow freezing’, is still utilized in every reproductive laboratory today. The method combines 2 protective aspects, which work together to prevent the formation of ice crystals inside the cells: adding a cryoprotective …
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Success after Microfreeze!
Our Extended Sperm Search and Microfreeze program, also known as ESSM, saw our first patients in November 2019. This program was designed to: Detect sperm in cases of virtual azoospermia- a sperm count too low to be detected on a standard semen analysis. This is typically a total sperm count below 200 (0.0002 million). Isolate …
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