Fertility Blog

Donor Genetic Screening

For patient(s) who need to use an egg donor to create or expand their family, medical scrutiny is performed on the chosen egg donor before she can proceed with the IVF cycle. The medica...

A Special Guest Visits PFC: Dr. Daoshing Ni, D.O.M, L.AC., Ph.D.

Announcing A New Infertility Resource: FertilityWire

We are excited to introduce a new website FertilityWire, http://fertilitywire.com . This site is separate from our current website www.pacificfertilitycenter.com . FertilityWire will pr...

Our Story, "All My Favorites"

  We met with Peggy the PFC counsel...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...