The Thin Pink Line (ART Compass Blog) – In our context represents the struggle, and strife of the “infertility warrior” trying to make sense of and create order out of the chaos of infertility – doctors, diagnoses, meds, and IVF cycle information.
The thin pink line between two black fields also pays respect to all the “loss” that goes into infertility care- from failed cycles, to failed FETs, “biochemical” pregnancies, blighted ovums, miscarriages and more.
Lastly, the thin pink line also references the line infertility warriors walk everyday- between hope and despair- between being a parent or not (typically abbreviated to “PUPO” or pregnant until proven otherwise in infertility forums).
Infertility research priorities have been proposed for 2021. Healthcare professionals, people with fertility problems and infertility researchers (healthcare funders, healthcare providers, healthcare regulators, research funding bodies and researchers) were brought together in an open and transparent process resulting in an article that was published in Human Reproduction in November 2020 outlining the top future infertility-related …
A rock solid team and happy balanced working environment are the keys to effective staff management and longevity of embryology teams. Teams that have played together for a long time are winning teams, teams with high embryologist turnover and burnout are constantly destabilized.
September is a great time to perform an FDA Compliance quality assurance audit in your IVF Lab!
There are so many exciting talks at ASRM2021, Reproduction Reimagined!
COVID 19 Vaccine and Sterility
e importance of the embryologist’s role in embryo freezing, also called cryopreservation, has grown with the rise in pre-implantation genetic testing and “freeze-all” strategies.
Healthy sperm is critical to the success of ART procedures and so we use sperm preparation techniques to separate functional spermatozoa for IUI, IVF, and ART and for cryopreservation.
Male Fertility and Lifestyle Factors are present in up to half of couples. The prevalence of male infertility makes semen analysis one of the most important fertility tests, and it should be performed prior to any female therapy. Male infertility means that a man may not deliver the appropriate quantity or quality of sperm to reach and …
In some individuals, spermatozoa may not be present in the ejaculate. This condition is called Azoospermia. This can be either due to problems in sperm production itself or due to obstruction to the flow of semen during ejaculation. Reproductive tract obstruction can be acquired – as a result of infection, trauma, and iatrogenic injury which …
Cleavage Stage Embryos, What happens on Day 3 of an IVF Cycle? We take the embryos out of the incubator to feed them (change the media they are growing in) and check on them. We give them grades at this time and update the physician on the status of the cleavage stage embryos. In the …
IVF and ICSI have many similarities. However, the differences between them are very important. This post is dedicated to defining the differences between IVF and ICSI. The introduction of intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) has resulted in a choice of fertilization methods between conventional in vitro fertilization by insemination (IVF) and fertilization by ICSI. Fertilization by …
