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Hardship Happens

by Arika Avedano, Senior Case Manager for Northern California and Nevada, The Donor SOURCE, August 25, 2010 IVF, especially donor IVF, can be a long and difficult road. However, there is no denying that it boasts the most amazing payoff. There is nothing you will love more than the child (or children!) born into your home through the amazing dedication of your physician, clinic coordinators, case managers, egg donor and other cycle staff.

Legal Update: Same Sex Marriage and More

by Melissa Brisman, Esq. and Lauren Murray, Esq., September 1, 2010 This month’s legal update begins in California where the California Supreme Court recently ruled that a ban on same-sex marriage in the state is unconstitutional. Also in California, the state legislature enacted a new law restricting a surrogacy agency’s ability to manage client funds. Next, the update discusses a recent ruling in Mexico recognizing the right of homosexuals to marry in Mexico City. Finally, the update discusses a clinic outside of Barcelona, Spain, which is in the practice of allowing embryos of former patients to be adopted by current patients without the original embryo owners’ knowledge or consent.

Is It Time to See a Sacramento Fertility Doctor?

Women and couples struggling with infertility in Sacramento are not alone. California has over 775,000 people diagnosed with infertility, the highest number of any state.

Choosing an Infertility Clinic in Sacramento

There are 63 fertility clinics located in the state of California. Of that number, there are four fertility clinics located in the Sacramento Metropolitan area, including the cities of Roseville and Davis. There are approximately eight fertility doctors working out of these fertility clinics in the Sacramento area. Sacramento Infertility Clinic Options

Using an Egg Donor in Sacramento

According to the Assisted Reproductive Technology Report of 2007, the state of California accounted for a total of 3,142 IVF cycles using donor eggs. Of that number, 147 donor egg cycles were performed in the Sacramento area, including 98 cycles using fresh donor eggs and 49 cycles using frozen donor eggs.

Success Rates for Egg Donation in Sacramento

The following information, from the 2007 Assisted Reproductive Technology Report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), details the number of donor egg IVF cycles and the number of live births at Sacramento fertility clinics.

Surrogacy in Sacramento, CA

Surrogacy is an assisted reproductive technology option for women who cannot conceive or carry a pregnancy to term. In surrogacy, a woman carries a child for another woman who cannot get pregnant herself.

Sacramento Attorneys Offer Legal Assistance in Building Families

With the technologies that have developed in the field of assisted reproduction, a new type of law has emerged to protect the rights of those involved.

Insurance Coverage for Infertility in Sacramento, CA

Fertility diagnosis, fertility treatments and fertility drugs can be expensive. Currently, there are only 15 states that mandate insurance coverage for infertility treatment. Luckily for Sacramento residents, California is one of these states.

Sacramento Infertility Support

Going through infertility treatments can be an emotionally trying time, both personally and within relationships. You may find yourself going through a myriad of emotions, including fear, anger, sadness and guilt. You may feel a lack of control, and may even begin to blame yourself or your partner for failure to conceive.

Giuliana Rancic’s 63 IVF Injections a Month! Is This Par for the IVF Course ...

Recently, reality star Giuliana Rancic, anchor and managing editor of E! News, opened up about her fertility treatments, revealing that she receives more than 60 IVF injections in one month to prepare her body for the IVF procedure. But is this number of IVF injections typical for an average patient? According to Dr. John G. Wilcox, a board certified reproductive endocrinologist (fertility doctor) at HRC Fertility in Pasadena, Calif., representing that more than 60 IVF shots a month as the normal patient experience can be misleading. “That’s an exceptional number of injections,” he says. “It would be highly atypical, profoundly atypical.”

Sacramento Fertility News

'Octomom' doc accused of implanting 7 embryos

LOS ANGELES — The fertility doctor of "Octomom" Nadya Suleman implanted too many embryos in one patient, resulting in the death of a fetus, and failed to refer another woman to a cancer specialist after finding cysts on her ovaries, the state licensing board said. The new allegations by the Medical Board of California bolster its ongoing negligence case against Dr. Michael Kamrava. The board said a 48-year-old patient identified only as "L.C." was implanted with seven embryos in September 2008 — several months after the 33-year-old Suleman had embryos implanted.

Test can predict success of IVF: U.S. report

U.S. researchers have developed a formula that can predict whether fertility treatment will succeed more accurately than using age alone, and used it to develop a commercial test. They said their test, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday, could save couples the agony and expense of multiple attempts to have babies using in vitro fertilization, also known as IVF.

Jennifer Aniston Weighs Her Fertility Options

Jennifer Aniston is apparently interested in becoming a mother. Talking to Jay Leno on NBC’s “The Tonight Show,” she exclaimed that she would never consider a sperm donor primarily because she would want to know “the guy.” In fact, the 41-year old is baffled by the technicalities of artificial insemination. Read more.

Neil Patrick Harris and Partner Expect Twins

LOS ANGELES — Neil Patrick Harris is going to be a dad. On Saturday afternoon, the "How I Met Your Mother" star confirmed via Twitter that he and partner, David Burtka, are expecting not one, but two bundles of joy. Adam Shankman of "So You Think You Can Dance," quickly congratulated the couple on the news via Twitter, writing, "guess what babies are gonna learn how to dance and direct from their uncle Adam?" Read more.

Embryo Videos Show Which Ones Likely to Grow to Become Pregnancy

Video clips of days-old embryos reveal developing growth that may predict whether they are likely to lead to pregnancy, making them good choices to implant in women undergoing fertility treatment, a study found. A Stanford University team used a tiny microscope with video to film 242 embryos as they grew. The scientists identified three criteria that they said may forecast with 93 percent accuracy whether an embryo would reach a stage more likely to lead to pregnancy.

Octomom Fertility Doc's License Hearing to Begin

The doctor who helped Nadya Suleman conceive her octuplets and six other children through in vitro fertilization faces allegations of negligence at a licensing hearing. Dr. Michael Kamrava could have his license to practice medicine revoked or suspended as a result of Monday's Medical Board of California hearing. The Beverly Hills physician is accused of several instances of negligence, including implanting too many embryos in Suleman, whose moniker "Octomom" is a reference to the octuplets he helped her conceive.

Common Plastic Chemical Linked to Infertility

A new study suggests a chemical widely found in a variety of household products may reduce the success of in vitro fertilization and damage human eggs. Researchers at UC San Francisco analyzed the blood of 26 infertile women and their eggs. The eggs had been collected for in vitro fertilization. The team found that those women with the most bisphenol-A (or BPA) in their blood had the least viable eggs, and vice versa. Indeed, as the blood levels of BPA in the women doubled, the percentage of eggs that fertilized normally declined by 50 percent.

Avoiding Ethical Quandaries in Embryo Donation

When it's most successful, in vitro fertilization, or IVF, yields far more embryos than a couple could ever use (unless that couple is the offspring-obsessed Duggar family). There are frequently frozen embryos left over, and the options for what to do with them are limited: destroy them, donate them to research — or, rarely, to other couples — or continue storing them in liquid nitrogen for a fee. There is very little consistency in terms of how fertility clinics ask patients for their preference.

Sperm Gene May Explain Some Male Infertility

A mutation in a gene for a sperm-related protein found in 20% of men may be responsible for a significant proportion of unexplained male infertility, according to researchers at University of California-Davis. They studied the impact of the gene, called DEFB126, in 500 Chinese newlyweds attempting to start a family. In couples where the man had two copies of the mutant version, the odds of childbirth in any given month were reduced by 30% and the average time to conception was delayed by two months compared to couples in which the male had only one or no copies of the aberrant gene.

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