- August 12, 2009
What Everyone Should Know About Ethnic-Based Genetic Screening Before Pregnancy
Ancestral Population Genetic Desease Carrier Frequency Detection Rate\* All cystic fibrosis Approximately 4% in people of European (and Ashkenazi Jewish) ancestry and less common in oth...
Read More - July 22, 2009
ART and Birth Outcomes
Assisted reproductive technology (ART) has been a part of modern medicine now for over 30 years and in the US alone over 132,000 IVF cycles were performed in 2007. All birth outcomes ar...
Read More - July 15, 2009
Worlds Oldest IVF Mom Dies: Not Treated at PFC in San Francisco
News broke earlier today about the death of a 69 year old mother
Read More - July 15, 2009
IVF At Any Age?: A Look at the Medical Dilemma
world's oldest new mom dies at age 69 (see our earlier blog post clarifying that PFC did not treat this patient ), three years after giving birth to twins conceived through IVF. Maria...
Read More - July 9, 2009
Unexplained Infertility: A Most Frustrating Diagnosis
![]There are many critical steps in the process of getting pregnant which we can not directly assess; such as how efficiently the eggs are captured by the fallopian tubes, how efficient...
Read More - July 2, 2009
Cumulative Pregnancy Rate for 2007
At Pacific Fertility Center, we consider very carefully the number of embryos we transfer to each patient. Our goal is to create a healthy singleton pregnancy. We do our best to avoid m...
Read More - June 26, 2009
Doctors Eldon Schriock and Philip Chenette were interviewed for articles in USA Today's special supplement titled "Infertility and Pregnancy A Guide To Family Planning."
The guide was supplement to the Friday June 26, 2009 edition of USA Today, and includes pieces on Egg Freezing and the use of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine with fertility treatments....
Read More - June 25, 2009
A Deliberate Journey Into Parenting
Being a single gay dad certainly suggests that I didn't get pregnant accidentally; my journey into parenting has been a long and deliberate one. Having my 6 month old son and daughter s...
Read More - June 2, 2009
Dr. Conaghan & Dr. Givens Attend ABB Conference
In January, Dr. Carolyn Givens and I attended a meeting in Hawaii organized by the American Board of Bioanalysts (ABB). This organization board certifies and licenses embryologists, and...
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