In this month's Fertility and Sterility: Unplugged, we take a look at articles from F&S's sister journals! Topics this month include a review of studies of menstrual fluid (2:18), changing our language regarding progestin protocols (18:35), and nanoscale motion tracing of spermatozoa (26:46). F&S Reviews: https://www.fertstertreviews.org/article/S2…

Take a sneak peek at this month's Fertility & Sterility! Articles discussed this month are: 4:56 A pilot study to investigate the clinically predictive values of copy number variations detected by next-generation sequencing of cell-free deoxyribonucleic acid in spent culture media 18:17 The impact of microfluidics sperm processing on blastocyst eup…

In this month's Fertility & Sterility: Unplugged, we examine articles from F&S's sister journals! Topics this month include biomarkers for improving sperm parameters with varicocele repair (1:42), side effects with minimal controlled stimulation with in vitro maturation (14:48), and the use of a GnRH antagonist for heavy menstrual bleeding with fib…

Take a sneak peak at this month's Fertility & Sterility! Articles discussed this month are: 4:33 A randomized controlled trial to compare the live birth rate of the first frozen embryo transfer following the progestin-primed ovarian stimulation protocol vs. the antagonist protocol in women with an anticipated high ovarian response 20:24 Improved fe…

Fertility & Sterility on Air brings you a deep dive into the June issue Seminal Contribution: a randomized controlled trial studying the use of progestins for ovulation supression in predicted high responders. With Micah Hill, Ernest Ng, and Zhi Chen. Read the article: https://www.fertstert.org/article/S0015-0282(24)00030-X/abstract View Fertility …

In this month's Fertility & Sterility: Unplugged, we take a look at articles from F&S's sister journals! Topics this month include counseling on pregnancy complications in PCOS patients (2:05), sorting early spermatocytes from testicular biopsies (14:04), and diversity statements on REI fellowship websites (27:01). F&S Reports: https://www.fertster…

Take a sneak peek at this month's Fertility and Sterility! Articles discussed this month are: 6:24 Iatrogenic and demographic determinants of the national plural birth increase 18:10 Comparison of outcomes between intracytoplasmic sperm injection and in vitro fertilization inseminations with preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy, analysis …

In this month's Fertility & Sterility: Unplugged, we take a look at articles from F&S's sister journals! Topics this month include: IVF in film (3:03), a rat model of fallopian tube torsion (12:25), comparing letrozole regimens for PCOS (24:13), and a review of chronic endometritis (36:46). Consider This: https://www.fertstert.org/news-do/evaluatio…

Take a sneak peak at this month's Fertility & Sterility! Topics this month include the use of ICSI (4:51), fertility treatments among reproductive-aged women after cancer (7:43), oxygen tension during in vitro maturation (18:45), international gestational surrogacy in the United States (30:31), the menstrual cycle and weekly and lunar rhythms (39:4…

In this month's Fertility & Sterility: Unplugged, we take a look at articles from F&S's sister journals! Topics this month include: melatonin and implantation (4:38), whole-genome screening of embryos (12:21), and bioengineering assisted reproductive technology (24:45). Consider This: https://www.fertstert.org/news-do/can-oral-melatonin-supplementa…

Fertility & Sterility on Air brings you the highlights from the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Reproductive Society, with interviews of presenters at PCRS 2024 in Indian Wells, CA! We had a chat with the winners of the PCRS Awards, as well as with authors of other very interesting studies evaluating a wide range of subjects in the field o…

Listen to this interview featuring Dr. Jeremy Applebaum, who recently published "Impact of coronavirus disease 2019 vaccination on live birth rates after in vitro fertilization" Read the article https://www.fertstert.org/article/S0015-0282(23)02029-0/abstract View Fertility and Sterility at https://www.fertstert.org/…

Take a sneak peak at this month's Fertility and Sterility! Topics this month include the impact of COVID-19 vaccination on live birth rates after IVF (4:17), the "freeze-all" strategy in women with adenomyosis (13:47), the impact of adenomyosis on donor egg IVF cycles (24:54), ART associated risk factors for retained products of conception (30:00),…

In this month's Fertility and Sterility: Unplugged, we take a look at articles from F&S's sister journals! Topics this month include: fluoroscopic-guided hysteroscopic tubal cannulation (1:59), follicular-fluid phthalates and ovarian reserve (15:26), epigenetics of endometriosis (28:23), and decisions around embryo disposition (40:48). F&S Reports:…

Listen to this interview featuring Dr. Papri Sarkar and Dr. Phillip Romanski, who discuss their recent article "Optimal antimüllerian hormone levels in oocyte donors: a national database analysis." Read the article https://www.fertstert.org/article/S0015-0282(23)01992-1/abstract View Fertility and Sterility at https://www.fertstert.org/…

Take a sneak peek at this month's Fertility and Sterility! Topics this month include the optimal AMH level in oocyte donors (5:23), the role of the mean number of DNA breakpoints (MDB) in sperm DNA integrity and IVF outcomes (12:29), declining FET outcomes with increasing female BMI (22:38), higher live birth rates in normal BMI PGT-A FET cycles (3…

In this month's Fertility & Sterility: Unplugged, we take a look at articles from F&S's sister journals! Topics this month include: HCG as a predictor of pregnancy outcome after IVF (1:38), progestin ovulation suppression and embryo development (13:30), expanded carrier screening in sperm donors (29:30), and the future of fertility in the metaverse…

Take a sneak peak at this month's Fertility & Sterility! Topics this month include the association between thick endometrium with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (3:40), state insurance mandates and racial ethnic inequities in ART (12:45), azoospermia factor c microdeletions and outcomes of art (18:20), sperm production in men with azoospermia …

Listen to this interview featuring Dr. Ranjith Ramasamy and Dr. Braian Ledesma, who discuss their recent article "Fertility outcomes in men with prior history of anabolic steroid use." A medical researcher and urologist, Dr. Ramasamy is known for academic contributions to reproductive medicine, including testosterone deficiency, regenerative therap…

Take a sneak peak at this month's Fertility & Sterility! Topics this month include rebiopsy and analysis of noneuploid embryos with 2 distinct PGT platforms (6:01), mobile phone use and semen quality (25:22), steroid use and fertility outcomes (33:54), estradiol levels during programmed frozen embryo transfer cycles (43:25), gender differences in l…

In this month's Fertility & Sterility: Unplugged, we take a look at articles from F&S's sister journals! Topics this month include: the growing role of private equity in fertility care with special guests Jane Zhu and Paula Amato (1:26), ART outcomes after fertility-sparing treatment for endometrial neoplasia (21:00), testicular compensation after …

Take a sneak peek at this month's Fertility & Sterility! Topics this month include scientific integrity (1:59), chromosomal, gestational, and neonatal outcomes of mosaic embryos (6:26), risk of congenital malformations after ICSI (15:15), successful cryptozoospermia management with multiple semen specimen collection (28:58), and fertility preservat…

Fertility and Sterility on Air brings you some great interviews from ASRM 2023 in New Orleans, LA! In this bonus episode, we bring you a joint episode with the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists and the Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology. Join Pietro Bortoletto, Samantha Pfeiffer, Charles Miller, and Katie Coyne in discussing …

Fertility & Sterility on Air brings you some great interviews from ASRM 2023 in New Orleans, LA! In Part 2, we bring you some more science, including the first prize paper and discussion with two of our plenary speakers, followed by a focus on the ASRM mission. Topics include: clinical outcomes of mosaic embryo transfers (Manuel Viotti, Svetlana Ma…

Fertility & Sterility on Air brings you some great interviews from ASRM 2023 in New Orleans, LA! In Part 1, we discuss science with leaders in the field and presenters from the conference. Topics include rates of vasectomy after the overturn of Roe v. Wade (Jessica Schardein) (1:11), ultrasound-guided ovarian ablation for PCOS (Karl Hansen) (6:32),…

In this month's Fertility & Sterility: Unplugged, we take a look at articles from F&S's sister journals! Topics this month include: a discussion of the limitations of peer review (1:47), a case of an accessory cavitated uterine mass (12:31), fertility outcomes after uterine niche repair (20:07), and comparing artificial intelligence to embryologist…

Presented in partnership with Fertility and Sterility onsite at the 2023 ESHRE 39th Annual Meeting in Copenhagen. To date, recurrent implantation failure (RIF) has no clear definition and no clearly identified impaired function. Hence, the term RIF is currently used somewhat haphazardly, on the basis of clinicians’ judgment. International experts i…

Take a sneak peak at this month's Fertility & Sterility! Topics this month include whether sperm quality affects reproductive outcomes (2:20), CRISPR for human embryonic editing (6:00), the appropriate length of REI training (12:28), meeting the US demand for fertility services (14:44), testosterone and LH as predictors of semen parameter improveme…

In this month's Fertility & Sterility: Unplugged, we take a look at articles from F&S's sister journals! Topics this month include: IVF outcomes for patients with HIV (1:33), using sperm methylation patterns to determine IUI and IVF success (13:40), a survey of the public's views on embryo disposition (24:35), and a special visit from F&S Reviews E…

Take a sneak peak at this month's Fertility & Sterility! Topics this month include the promise and peril of using ChatGPT as a fertility counseling tool (5:55), the impact of elevated serum progesterone levels before FET on reproductive outcomes (21:10), Bologna vs Poseidon criteria as predictors of the likelihood of obtaining at least 1 euploid em…

In this month's Fertility & Sterility: Unplugged, we take a look at articles from F&S's sister journals! Topics this month include: medications that impair male fertility (1:53), IVF after gender-affirming hormonal therapy in a mouse model (16:26), a randomized trial of follicular vs. luteal IVF starts (22:46), and whether artificial intelligence c…

Take a sneak peak at this month's Fertility & Sterility! Topics this month include the effect of maternal age on ART success rates after euploid embryo transfer (8:42), attachment of trophoblastic spheroid onto endometrial epithelial cells (18:25), antagonist protocol vs flare in poor responders (26:39), the association between dietary patterns and…

In this month's Fertility & Sterility: Unplugged, we take a look at articles from F&S's sister journals! Topics this month include: age-related mosaic embryo occurrences (1:09), artificial intelligence and time-lapse imaging for euploid embryo selection (10:28), splitting egg freezing between fertility preservation and donation (19:54), and the imp…

Take a sneak peak at this month's Fertility & Sterility! Topics this month include the impact of socioeconomic factors on semen parameters (01:42), modified natural versus programmed embryo transfer cycles (09:45); gynecologic malignancy after treating fibroids with interventional radiology procedures (20:41); state insurance mandates on disparitie…

Fertility & Sterility comes to you from ESHRE 2023 in Copenhagen, Denmark! Continuing from Part 1, listen in as we discuss some of the best abstracts from the conference. Topics in Part 2 include sperm genome editing by CRISPR-Cas9 (Angela Bryanne De Jesus - 00:42); differences in uterine contractility in women with adenomyosis (Sophie Thomas - 11:…

Fertility & Sterility comes to you from ESHRE 2023 in Copenhagen, Denmark! Listen in as we discuss some of the best abstracts from the conference. Topics include the composition of commercially available human preimplantation embryo culture media (Miriam Zagers - 01:12); a trial of intraovarian injection of platelet rich plasma for women with poor …

In this month's Fertility & Sterility: Unplugged, we take a look at articles from F&S's sister journals! Topics this month include: transposons and recurrent pregnancy loss (1:16), male fertility after spinal cord injury (8:52), rise in vasectomy consults after the Dobbs decision (18:25), and a survey of supplement use (24:02). F&S Science: https:/…

Take a sneak peak at this month's Fertility & Sterility! Topics this month include a trial on maternal spindle transfer for recurrent implantation failure (02:38), progesterone rescue during embryo transfer (15:07), contraceptive-specific AMH (21:58), soy and ovarian reserve (33:20), micronutrient supplementation on time-to-conception and clinical …

In this month's Fertility & Sterility: Unplugged, we take a look at articles from F&S's sister journals! Topics this month include: DHEA use for IVF patients (2:07), the ideal number of oocytes to reach live birth (10:47), in vitro maturation with cumulus cells (20:57), and sperm DNA fragmentation (29:12). Consider This: https://www.fertstert.org/n…

Take a sneak peak at this month's Fertility & Sterility! Topics this month include the impact of fatty acids on sperm parameters and pregnancy outcomes (1:45), oocytes yield and IVF outcomes (10:12), diminished ovarian reserve as a risk factor for preeclampsia and other placental issues (21:57), a core outcome set for future research in ectopic pre…

In this month's Fertility & Sterility: Unplugged, we take a look at articles from each of F&S's sister journals! Topics this month include: the gut microbiome and male fertility (1:46), whether pesticides in produce lead to endometriosis and fibroids (9:13), and views on family building in a lesbian population (17:31). F&S Reports: https://www.fert…

Take a sneak peek at this month's Fertility and Sterility! Topics this month include in vitro egg maturation (2:29), malpractice litigation in IVF (4:35), outcomes following surgical sperm extraction (13:39), progesterone supplementation in natural cycle frozen embryo transfer (22:26), breastfeeding and adenomyosis risk (36:41), neighborhood disadv…

In this month's Fertility & Sterility: Unplugged, we take a look at articles from each of F&S's sister journals! Topics this month include: viability of post-mortem testicular sperm extraction (1:04), the impact of sleep deprivation on sperm quality in mice (8:57), and a review of adenomyosis and endometrial receptivity (17:05). F&S Reports: https:…

Take a sneak peak at this month's Fertility & Sterility! Topics this month include a discussion on racial and ethnic disparities in ART (1:04), Covid-19 vaccination and menstrual cycle changes (1:32), opioid use and risk of opioid abuse in male reproductive surgery patients (8:14), male HPV infection and risk of idiopathic recurrent pregnancy loss …

In this month's Fertility & Sterility: Unplugged, we take a look at articles from each of F&S's sister journals! Topics this month include: a review of IVF cost reduction (1:00), a closer look at male factor infertility with use of sperm chromatin fragmentation (14:44), and the use of testosterone use before fertility preservation (26:56). F&S Revi…

Take a sneak peak at this month's Fertility & Sterility! Topics this month include a discussion on using national surveillance data for fresh versus frozen embryo transfer research (02:42), user-controlled male contraception (12:10), endometrial receptivity assay (ERA)before frozen embryo transfer (22:25), sleep and pregnancy outcomes (35:09), risk…

In this month's Fertility & Sterility: Unplugged, we take a look at articles from each of Fertility and Sterility's sister journals! Topics this month include: cytokine profiles associated with miscarriage (1:18), a review of blood and urine biomarkers for endometriosis (10:42), and embryonic aneuploidy rates in patients with recurrent pregnancy lo…

Take a sneak peak at this month's Fertility & Sterility! Topics this month include the impact of genetics lab on euploid and live birth rates (01:58), pregnancy & neonatal outcomes after long-term vitrification (09:44), risk of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy in donated-embryos pregnancies (18:08), diagnosing ectopic pregnancy using Bayes theor…

In this month's Fertility & Sterility: Unplugged, we take a look at articles from each of F&S's sister journals! Topics this month include: a review of in vitro oocyte maturation (1:26), a novel approach using mitochondria transfer to rescue ovarian aging (18:01), and a randomized-control trial on oil- vs water-based contrast for sono-hysterosalpin…

Take a sneak peak at this month's Fertility & Sterility! Topics this month include outcomes after intrauterine insemination in low AMH versus normal AMH women (2:57), impact of low initial serum hCGs after IVF pregnancies on pregnancy complications and placental pathology (18:23), single embryo transfer of good quality embryo versus double embryo t…