Fertility Blog

New Office Manager

- Providing a welcoming, positive environment when patients arrive for appointments and wait in the lobby. Ensuring that calls from current PFC patients are answered promptly and routed...

Using Frozen Sperm for IUI

Many of our patients are undergoing fertility treatment for male factor indications, and undergo insemination therapy. This may be patients who are using donor sperm from a sperm bank, ...

New On-Line Egg Donor Registry

pacificfertilitycenter.com , then select the Egg Donor Agency link to the left, then select Search Egg Donor Registry . The intended parent will be prompted for a username and password....

Donor Odyssey - Lucky to Be Chosen

Ask The Experts - Allergic to Sperm?

Question:** Answer:** Many people say that they are allergic to their partner's sperm, and that can mean different things, depending on the testing done. True incompatibility with sperm...

Therapy and Infertility

In last month's issue we introduced our readers to Peggy Orlin, MFT , Pacific Fertility Center's in-house therapist. This month we interviewed her about the key psychological issues aff...

2005 IVF Statistics

Pacific Fertility Center is pleased to provide its final IVF laboratory statistics for 2005. (This is the most recent data from our clinic and has not yet been reported to CDC/SART. Thi...

PFC Spotlight - My Passion Followed Pain

As many of us do, I began a career in one area and discovered my true passion along the way. I began as a teacher in Long Island. After working for several years as a teacher for studen...

At Home Sperm Testing

http://www.webwomb.com/fertilmarq_faq.htm . In our trials, the test easily distinguished between samples with normal sperm counts and those with little or no sperm. Clear positive resul...