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Book Synopsis The Fertility Promise: The Facts Behind in vitro Fertilisation (IVF) by : Peter Hollands
Download or read book The Fertility Promise: The Facts Behind in vitro Fertilisation (IVF) written by Peter Hollands and published by Bentham Science Publishers. This book was released on 2021-12-29 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fertility Promise is a complete guide to the often emotional, expensive and confusing process of fertility treatment. The book offers clear explanations and advice to anyone undergoing fertility treatment (such as in vitro fertilization) or anyone seeking information about relevant treatment options. The information includes advice to both male and female patients, LGBT patients, IVF clinics, the IVF treatment process, the issues surrounding IVF ‘add-ons’, what it is really like to go through fertility treatment and what the future of IVF might look like. Covering every aspect of the topic, the book is an extremely important point of reference for all fertility patients as well as individuals who wish to broaden their perspective on fertility medicine and clinics. The Fertility Promise informs both general readers and empowers fertility patients who are looking for the correct treatment, enabling them to clearly understand the fertility treatment process and to ask appropriate and often revealing questions on the subject.
Book Synopsis In Vitro: My Journey Through the World of IVF by : Anastasia Sputnik
Download or read book In Vitro: My Journey Through the World of IVF written by Anastasia Sputnik and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a personal testimony from a patient who underwent 15 In Vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments over a 7 year period. It is a story about male infertility combined with the female's fertility declined with the age, which lead the partners to proceed with In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) as the only option. In today's western world one in every six couples face fertility problems and this story could become a reality for millions of couples in the world. This book is raising awareness about female fertility and reproductivity potential for women after their mid-thirties. It also reveals some of the "hidden truths" and misconceptions about IVF and demystifies information provided by the press and media. A similar book with details of the latest IVF trends, facts and experiences from the patients' perspective has never been published. The first part of the book is a chronicle of the author's experiences as an IVF patient, where she shares medical information, facts, experience and lessons learned during IVF treatments. In the second part of the book the author is offering valuable advice, recommendations, and tools, including tips on how to save money for IVF. This is also a patient's story about the emotional impact of IVF. The book is unique in presenting a serious family and marriage crisis throughout battles with infertility and how the journey through the IVF drastically affected the couple's relationship. It is also a story of a personal life crisis that the female patient was going through. The author describes her own turmoil when she decided to end IVF (IVF closure) after many years of living in the "IVF bubble", when she faced not only the cruel fact that she will never be able to have more children, but also experienced a career failure, financial difficulties and her husband being ready to leave her due to the inability to have a big family together. This book is also a relevant resource for medical practitioners to better understand patients' physical and emotional needs and improve the service in IVF clinics. Quote from the book: "My greatest hope is that reading this book leads to positive outcomes for as many women and couples as possible!"
Book Synopsis In Vitro Fertilization by : Vincent Ellwood
Download or read book In Vitro Fertilization written by Vincent Ellwood and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that 7.3 million women and men in the U.S. are facing fertility issues?If you're worried about being able to get pregnant, you're not alone. And you never have to be. Wherever you are, there's a fertility center nearby that can provide you the care and support you may need. The In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) procedure is the process of joining a sperm and an egg outside of your body and inside a culture dish in a laboratory. Still, no matter how prepared you think you are for an IVF procedure; it's always helpful to review the facts. In vitro fertilization or IVF is a technological advancement in the medical arena in response to the alarming rate of infertility in developed countries. The concept was pioneered by Patrick Steptoe and Dr. Robert Edwards, a Cambridge physiologist, late in the 1960s and about ten years later, the first IVF baby was delivered in the UK.IVF treatment demands a high level of expertise and attention to detail, as well as a precise coordinated effort between you, your partner, and your IVF team. IVF was invented primarily to help women that suffer infertility due to blocked or diseased uterine tubes, but over time, the application of the procedure has been extended to cover cases like endometriosis, hostile cervical mucus and a host of other infertility problems. It is even applied now in cases where the husband or male partner suffers from a low sperm count, albeit, the results with the latter have not been particularly impressive.Like every other man made procedure, IVF has its own share of limitations and adverse effects. The success rate of the procedure and the risk of suffering an ectopic pregnancy; a pregnancy that implants and develops outside the uterine cavity and almost always ends up with erupted uterine tube, are two of such issues. Also, with IVF, pregnancy does not always guarantee birth. Miscarriages and ectopic pregnancy tend to be higher with this procedure compared to the general population. Losing the pregnancy from an IVF procedure is fairly common, although no general estimate exists, while the occurrence of ectopic pregnancy from IVF is put at 5-10% of all IVF pregnancies.Another issue with in vitro fertilization is the success rate. The recorded successes for IVF procedures vary from place to place, though no figure is considered high anywhere. For every couple that resort to IVF and get a happy outcome, there are several more couples that find their infertility problem intractable. Albeit, the technological basis of IVF is getting better by the day, as more facts become clear about IVF, leading to better results with IVF attempts, the figures cited in most leading IVF centers are in this order: an eight to ten percent chance of pregnancy if only one embryo is implanted in the woman's uterus, a twenty percent chance if two embryos are implanted and a thirty percent chance of getting pregnant with three embryos implanted. For medical reasons, the number of embryos implanted rarely goes above three or four. However, it is imperative to reiterate, here, that pregnancy, as with normal conditions, does not always guarantee birth.According to a study of approximately 156,000 women, the average live-birth rate for the first cycle was 29.5 percent. This is comparable to the success rates for a natural cycle in couples with healthy fertilityYour best odds for success may come from repeated treatment cycles. This same study found that after six IVF cycles, the cumulative live-birth rate was 65.3 percent. These six cycles usually took place over two years.Age does play an important role in your success, as does the reason for your infertility. Using an egg donor will also affect your success. Despite the fact that doctors and others in the medical field can't make promises or guarantees about IVF yet, it is obvious that the procedure has put joy on the faces of many couples and still holds hope for those waiting for it.
Download or read book Infertility and IVF written by Jo Benson and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This books covers all aspects of infertility and IVF through the testimony of those who have experiences it. In vitro fertilization (IVF) is, for many, the last stage of the infertility investigation. At this point, it has been established that, for one reason or another, the woman cannot conceive naturally. Fertility problems are thought to effect around one in ten couples and it is a growing phenomenon. This book deals with all the aspects of infertility and isolating hospital experience that take over your life. Many share their thoughts and feelings on the difficulties that may arise. Their accounts illustrate the various medical conditions that could cause infertility and the treatments available, up to and including IVF.
Download or read book IVF written by Rebecca Matthews and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to facts and understanding about the in vitro fertilization process.
Book Synopsis Freezing Fertility by : Lucy van de Wiel
Download or read book Freezing Fertility written by Lucy van de Wiel and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcomed as liberation and dismissed as exploitation, egg freezing (oocyte cryopreservation) has rapidly become one of the most widely-discussed and influential new reproductive technologies of this century. In Freezing Fertility, Lucy van de Wiel takes us inside the world of fertility preservation—with its egg freezing parties, contested age limits, proactive anticipations and equity investments—and shows how the popularization of egg freezing has profound consequences for the way in which female fertility and reproductive aging are understood, commercialized and politicized. Beyond an individual reproductive choice for people who may want to have children later in life, Freezing Fertility explores how the rise of egg freezing also reveals broader cultural, political and economic negotiations about reproductive politics, gender inequities, age normativities and the financialization of healthcare. Van de Wiel investigates these issues by analyzing a wide range of sources—varying from sparkly online platforms to heart-breaking court cases and intimate autobiographical accounts—that are emblematic of each stage of the egg freezing procedure. By following the egg’s journey, Freezing Fertility examines how contemporary egg freezing practices both reflect broader social, regulatory and economic power asymmetries and repoliticize fertility and aging in ways that affect the public at large. In doing so, the book explores how the possibility of egg freezing shifts our relation to the beginning and end of life.
Book Synopsis Comprehensive Gynecology by : Gretchen M. Lentz
Download or read book Comprehensive Gynecology written by Gretchen M. Lentz and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 957 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 25 years since the first edition of Comprehensive Gynecology, many scientific advances have occurred in medical practice. The first four editions were largely the work of the original four editors: Drs. William Droegemueller, Arthur L. Herbst, Daniel R. Mishell, Jr., and Morton A. Stenchever...With the staggering volume of medical literature published and the complexities of the gynecologic subspecialties, we have collaborated with additional experts for the sixth edition. We've "examined disease" and added a new chapter on the interaction of medical diseases and female physiology. We've "investigated discord" with new authors to completely rewrite the emotional and psychological issues in gynecology and the legal issues for obstetrician-gynecologists. Other chapters have delved into the controversies in breast cancer screening, vitamin D use, the ongoing debates in hormone therapy, and vaginal mesh use for pelvic organ prolapse surgery. (from Preface -- MD Consult, viewed April 9, 2012)
Book Synopsis Infertility Around the Globe by : Marcia C. Inhorn
Download or read book Infertility Around the Globe written by Marcia C. Inhorn and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-05-30 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays examine the global impact of infertility as a major reproductive health issue, one that has profoundly affected the lives of countless women and men. The contributors address a range of topics including how the deeply gendered nature of infertility sets the blame on women's shoulders.
Book Synopsis Biological Relatives by : Sarah Franklin
Download or read book Biological Relatives written by Sarah Franklin and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-five years after its initial success as a form of technologically assisted human reproduction, and five million miracle babies later, in vitro fertilization (IVF) has become a routine procedure worldwide. In Biological Relatives, Sarah Franklin explores how the normalization of IVF has changed how both technology and biology are understood. Drawing on anthropology, feminist theory, and science studies, Franklin charts the evolution of IVF from an experimental research technique into a global technological platform used for a wide variety of applications, including genetic diagnosis, livestock breeding, cloning, and stem cell research. She contends that despite its ubiquity, IVF remains a highly paradoxical technology that confirms the relative and contingent nature of biology while creating new biological relatives. Using IVF as a lens, Franklin presents a bold and lucid thesis linking technologies of gender and sex to reproductive biomedicine, contemporary bioinnovation, and the future of kinship.
Book Synopsis Assisted Reproductive Technology Success Rates by :
Download or read book Assisted Reproductive Technology Success Rates written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fertility Holidays written by Amy Speier and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical analysis of white, working class North Americans’ motivations and experiences when traveling to Central Europe for donor egg IVF Each year, more and more Americans travel out of the country seeking low cost medical treatments abroad, including fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilization (IVF). As the lower middle classes of the United States have been priced out of an expensive privatized “baby business,” the Czech Republic has emerged as a central hub of fertility tourism, offering a plentitude of blonde-haired, blue-eyed egg donors at a fraction of the price. Fertility Holidays presents a critical analysis of white, working class North Americans’ motivations and experiences when traveling to Central Europe for donor egg IVF. Within this diaspora, patients become consumers, urged on by the representation of a white Europe and an empathetic health care system, which seems nonexistent at home. As the volume traces these American fertility journeys halfway around the world, it uncovers layers of contradiction embedded in global reproductive medicine. Speier reveals the extent to which reproductive travel heightens the hope ingrained in reproductive technologies, especially when the procedures are framed as “holidays.” The pitch of combining a vacation with their treatment promises couples a stress-free IVF cycle; yet, in truth, they may become tangled in fraught situations as they endure an emotionally wrought cycle of IVF in a strange place. Offering an intimate, first-hand account of North Americans’ journeys to the Czech Republic for IVF, Fertility Holidays exposes reproductive travel as a form of consumption which is motivated by complex layers of desire for white babies, a European vacation, better health care, and technological success.
Book Synopsis Assessing the Medical Risks of Human Oocyte Donation for Stem Cell Research by : National Research Council
Download or read book Assessing the Medical Risks of Human Oocyte Donation for Stem Cell Research written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-03-22 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is widely understood that stem cell treatments have the potential to revolutionize medicine. Because of this potential, in 2004 California voters approved Proposition 71 to set up a 10-year, $3 billion program to fund research on stem cells. Under the direction of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, this program will pay to build facilities for stem cell research and will fund doctors and scientists to carry out research with the ultimate goal of helping to develop therapies based on stem cells. For this research to move forward, however, will require a steady supply of stem cells, particularly human embryonic stem cells. Those stem cells are collected from developing human embryos created from eggs-or oocytes-harvested from the ovaries of female donors. Thus much of the promise of stem cells depends on women choosing to donate oocytes to the research effort. The oocyte donation process is not without risk, however. Donors are given doses of hormones to trigger the production of more eggs than would normally be produced, and this hormone treatment can have various side effects. Once the eggs have matured in the ovary, they must be retrieved via a surgical procedure that is typically performed under anesthesia, and both the surgery and the anesthesia carry their own risks. Furthermore, given the very personal nature of egg donation, the experience may carry psychological risks for some women as well. With this in mind, in 2006 the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine contracted with the National Academies to organize a workshop that would bring together experts from various areas to speak about the potential risks of oocyte donation and to summarize what is known and what needs to be known about this topic. The Committee on Assessing the Medical Risks of Human Oocyte Donation for Stem Cell Research was formed to plan the workshop, which was held in San Francisco on September 28, 2006. This report is a summary and synthesis of that workshop.
Download or read book Cracked Open written by Miriam Zoll and published by Interlink Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A WOMAN’S BATTLE WITH THE BILLION-DOLLAR BABY BUSINESS Cracked Open is Miriam Zoll's eye-opening account of growing into womanhood with the simultaneous opportunities offered by the U.S. women's movement and new discoveries in reproductive technologies. Influenced by the pervasive media and cultural messages suggesting that science had finally eclipsed Mother Nature, Zoll postponed motherhood until the age of 40. When things don't progress as she had hoped, she enters a world of medical seduction and bioethical quagmires. Desperate to conceive, she surrenders to unproven treatments and procedures only to learn that the odds of becoming a mother through reproductive technologies are far less than she and her generation had been led to believe.
Book Synopsis Individualized In-Vitro Fertilization by : Human M. Fatemi
Download or read book Individualized In-Vitro Fertilization written by Human M. Fatemi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides updates on the most recent developments in individualized infertility treatment resulting in improved outcomes.
Book Synopsis The Reproductive Industry by : Vera Mackie
Download or read book The Reproductive Industry written by Vera Mackie and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-07-24 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting in 1978, when the first babies conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF) were born in the UK and India, assisted reproduction has become a global industry. Contributors to this edited collection reflect on the global dimensions of IVF and assisted reproductive technologies, examining how people have used these technologies to create diverse family forms, including gay, lesbian, and transgender parenthood, as well as complex configurations of genetic, gestational, and social parenthood. The authors examine how IVF and other reproductive technologies have and have not circulated around the globe; how reproductive technologies can be situated historically, nationally, locally, and culturally; and the ways in which culture, practices, regulations, norms, families, and kinship ties may be reinforced or challenged through the use of assisted reproduction.
Book Synopsis How to Get Pregnant by : Sherman J. Silber
Download or read book How to Get Pregnant written by Sherman J. Silber and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2009-11-29 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete update of a classic. Dr. Silber is the preeminent expert in the field of male and female fertility problems. He has appeared on "Oprah, the "Today show, Good Morning America, ABC's World News Tonight, Nightline, and was featured on Discovery Health's documentary program on infertility, "The Baby Lab, and many other national programs. The media world will eagerly welcome Dr. Silber to discuss the latest developments in infertility treatment.
Book Synopsis Acupuncture for IVF and Assisted Reproduction - E-Book by : Irina Szmelskyj
Download or read book Acupuncture for IVF and Assisted Reproduction - E-Book written by Irina Szmelskyj and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The management of infertility using acupuncture is an expanding area of practice and one which is frequently rewarding for TCM acupuncture practitioners. Acupuncture for IVF and Assisted Reproduction has been specially prepared to meet the growing demand for information in this area and draws upon 20 years combined experience of the authors together with the latest evidence from both orthodox medicine and TCM. Richly illustrated and clearly written throughout, the book takes the reader through the anatomy and physiology of reproductive medicine (from both an orthodox and TCM perspective) and explains the underlying basis of orthodox medical fertility tests and investigations. The volume then explores the pathology and aetiology of TCM syndromes and shows how common fertility-related conditions, such as endometriosis and male factor infertility, affect Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) success rates. It explains in great detail how to take a reproductive medical history and successfully diagnose TCM syndromes. Acupuncture for IVF and Assisted Reproduction also provides guidelines on how to regulate the menstrual cycle in preparation for IVF treatment and shows how lifestyle can affect fertility and ART success rates. Placing a strong emphasis on the practical aspects of patient care, Acupuncture for IVF and Assisted Reproduction contains an abundance of case history templates, algorithmic acupuncture treatment pathways and patient fact sheets and will be ideal for all acupuncture practitioners working in this field. "A must have for the bookshelf of any acupuncturist who is ever called upon to treat fertility issues - if you have room for one book this surely must be it." Reviewed by The Acupuncture Fertility Centre March 2015 "Practitioners of all levels of experience and TCM students should find it compelling reading and an invaluable companion to their learning." Reviewed by Stephen Clarke, Journal of the Australian Traditional Medicine Society May 2015 "This book is extremely well re-searched and referenced." Reviewed by Danny Maxwell on behalf of Journal of Chinese Medicine, February 2015
