In this micro-episode, we bring you an interview with Richard Paulson and Pierre Comizzoli, editors of the F&S Reports Special Issue, “Bridging Studies in Wild Animal Species and Humans to Better Understand, Assist, and Control Reproduction." Join us to discuss the connection between wild animal research and reproductive medicine. This interview pr…

In this month's Fertility & Sterility: Unplugged, we take a look at articles from F&S's sister journals! Topics this month include: how attacks on abortion access can threaten IVF (1:58), the prevalence of adenoymosis in young people (12:58), and the impact of short-term Western-style diet and hyperandrogenism on ovarian function (26:02). Consider …

Take a sneak peek at this month's Fertility & Sterility! Articles discussed this month are: 01:47 Puberty progression in girls with Turner syndrome after ovarian tissue cryopreservation 14:55 Optimal Restoration of Spermatogenesis following Testosterone Therapy using hCG and FSH 27:58 Human embryos with segmental aneuploidies display delayed early …

Take a sneak peek at this month's Fertility & Sterility! Articles discussed this month are: 01:46 It is time to rethink coordination of fresh oocyte retrievals with microscopic testicular sperm extraction 02:55 Rescue intracytoplasmic sperm injection improved cumulative live birth rate for cycles with second polar body extrusion rate…

Take a sneak peek at this month's Fertility & Sterility! Articles discussed this month are: 01:03 (Not) My body, my choice? - Should physicians be facilitating gestational carrier arrangements in the absence of medical indication? 05:22 Morphological changes of endometriomas during pregnancy and after delivery detected using ultrasound 12:17 Hormon…

Take a sneak peek at this month's Fertility and Sterility! Articles discussed this month are: 02:59 Preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy is associated with reduced live birth rates in fresh but not frozen donor oocyte in vitro fertilization cycles: an analysis of 18,562 donor cycles reported to Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology…

Take a sneak peek at this month's Fertility and Sterility! Articles discussed this month are: 01:48 Trustworthiness criteria for meta-analyses of randomized controlled studies: OBGYN journal guidelines 06:24 Playing the long game for reproductive rights 08:04 Limiting the number of fresh donor oocytes inseminated with sperm as a strategy to minimiz…

Take a sneak peek at this month's Fertility and Sterility! Articles discussed this month are: 04:20 LGBTQ+ family building: progress but lots more to do/Therapeutic donor insemination for LGBTQ+ families: a systematic review 09:52 Confirmation and pathogenicity of small copy number variations incidentally detected via a targeted next-generation seq…

In this month's Fertility & Sterility: Unplugged, we take a look at articles from F&S's sister journals! Topics this month include: a review of segmental aneuploidies and mosaicism (2:00), early removal of zona pellucida to improve embryo fragmentation (18:12), inflammatory markers in female infertility (31:53), and debating the role of adult conte…

Take a sneak peek at this month's Fertility & Sterility! Articles discussed this month are: 03:06 Embryos derived from single pronucleus are suitable for preimplantation genetic testing 09:59 Clinical factors impacting microdissection testicular sperm extraction success in hypogonadal men with nonobstructive azoospermia 24:46 Educational gradients …

Fertility and Sterility On Air brings you the best of ASRM 2024! In Part 2, our hosts bring you: home semen testing with Dan Greenberg (0:40), state insurance mandates for fertility coverage with Adeola Adeyeye (7:13), resource utilization difference between programmed and natural transfers with Ben Peipert (12:23), patient perspectives on embryo d…

Fertility and Sterility On Air brings you the best of ASRM 2024! In Part 1, our hosts bring you: in vitro maturation with Christian Kramme (1:40), uterine transplant data updates with Leigh Ann Humphries (9:21), novel characterization of ploidy abnormalities with Ludovica Picchetta (21:50), maternal age and euploid transfer success with Philip Roma…

Take a sneak peek at this month's Fertility & Sterility! Articles discussed this month are: 02:17 In vitro fertilization practice in patients with absolute uterine factor undergoing uterus transplant in the United States 21:22 Classification and treatment of vaginal strictures at the donor-recipient anastomosis after uterus transplant 31:18 Impact …

In this month's Fertility & Sterility: Unplugged, we take a look at articles from F&S's sister journals! Topics this month include: mechanical contractions and fibroid progression (2:22), endometriosis classification and risk of infertility (15:15), the roles of endometrial and mesothelial cells in endometriosis formation (29:36), and fertility cov…

In this month's Fertility & Sterility: Unplugged, we take a look at articles from F&S's sister journals! Topics this month include: radiofrequency ablation of fibroids (3:00), an opinion piece on testing embryos to reduce type 1 diabetes risk (17:42), preeclampsia risk with abnormal semen analysis (29:34), and a review of PCOS and miscarriage (44:3…

Take a sneak peak at this month's Fertility & Sterility! Articles discussed this month are: 04:19 Assessment of obstetric characteristics and outcomes associated with pregnancy with Turner syndrome 13:55 Effect of postthaw change in embryo score on single euploid embryo transfer success rates 22:38 Effectiveness of preconception weight loss interve…

Fertility and Sterility On Air brings you the best of ESHRE 2024! In Part 2, hosts Micah Hill, Paul Pirtea, and Kate Devine bring you: progesterone levels in a randomized controlled trial with long-acting FSH with Annalisa Racca (01:19), live birth of day 7 embryo transfers with Marcela Colonge and Nicolas Garrido (10:57), an ICSI vs conventional I…

Fertility and Sterility On Air brings you the best of ESHRE 2024! In Part 1, hosts Micah Hill, Paul Pirtea, and Kate Devine bring you: embryo reexpansion and live birth with Ibrahim Elkhatib (01:30), a discussion with the RBMO editor, Nick Macklon, and F&S editor, Kurt Barnhart, about “IVF add-ons” (11:21), rescue in vitro maturation with Danilo Ci…

Presented in partnership with Fertility and Sterility onsite at the 2024 ANZSREI meeting in Sydney, Australia. The ANZSREI 2024 debate discussed whether patients with unexplained infertility should go straight to IVF. Experts on both sides weighed the effectiveness, cost, and psychological impact of IVF versus alternatives like IUI. The pro side em…

In this month's Fertility and Sterility: Unplugged, we take a look at articles from F&S's sister journals! Topics this month include a review of studies of menstrual fluid (2:18), changing our language regarding progestin protocols (18:35), and nanoscale motion tracing of spermatozoa (26:46). F&S Reviews: https://www.fertstertreviews.org/article/S2…

Take a sneak peek at this month's Fertility & Sterility! Articles discussed this month are: 4:56 A pilot study to investigate the clinically predictive values of copy number variations detected by next-generation sequencing of cell-free deoxyribonucleic acid in spent culture media 18:17 The impact of microfluidics sperm processing on blastocyst eup…

In this month's Fertility & Sterility: Unplugged, we examine articles from F&S's sister journals! Topics this month include biomarkers for improving sperm parameters with varicocele repair (1:42), side effects with minimal controlled stimulation with in vitro maturation (14:48), and the use of a GnRH antagonist for heavy menstrual bleeding with fib…

Take a sneak peak at this month's Fertility & Sterility! Articles discussed this month are: 4:33 A randomized controlled trial to compare the live birth rate of the first frozen embryo transfer following the progestin-primed ovarian stimulation protocol vs. the antagonist protocol in women with an anticipated high ovarian response 20:24 Improved fe…

Fertility & Sterility on Air brings you a deep dive into the June issue Seminal Contribution: a randomized controlled trial studying the use of progestins for ovulation supression in predicted high responders. With Micah Hill, Ernest Ng, and Zhi Chen. Read the article: https://www.fertstert.org/article/S0015-0282(24)00030-X/abstract View Fertility …

In this month's Fertility & Sterility: Unplugged, we take a look at articles from F&S's sister journals! Topics this month include counseling on pregnancy complications in PCOS patients (2:05), sorting early spermatocytes from testicular biopsies (14:04), and diversity statements on REI fellowship websites (27:01). F&S Reports: https://www.fertster…

Take a sneak peek at this month's Fertility and Sterility! Articles discussed this month are: 6:24 Iatrogenic and demographic determinants of the national plural birth increase 18:10 Comparison of outcomes between intracytoplasmic sperm injection and in vitro fertilization inseminations with preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy, analysis …

In this month's Fertility & Sterility: Unplugged, we take a look at articles from F&S's sister journals! Topics this month include: IVF in film (3:03), a rat model of fallopian tube torsion (12:25), comparing letrozole regimens for PCOS (24:13), and a review of chronic endometritis (36:46). Consider This: https://www.fertstert.org/news-do/evaluatio…

Take a sneak peak at this month's Fertility & Sterility! Topics this month include the use of ICSI (4:51), fertility treatments among reproductive-aged women after cancer (7:43), oxygen tension during in vitro maturation (18:45), international gestational surrogacy in the United States (30:31), the menstrual cycle and weekly and lunar rhythms (39:4…

In this month's Fertility & Sterility: Unplugged, we take a look at articles from F&S's sister journals! Topics this month include: melatonin and implantation (4:38), whole-genome screening of embryos (12:21), and bioengineering assisted reproductive technology (24:45). Consider This: https://www.fertstert.org/news-do/can-oral-melatonin-supplementa…

Fertility & Sterility on Air brings you the highlights from the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Reproductive Society, with interviews of presenters at PCRS 2024 in Indian Wells, CA! We had a chat with the winners of the PCRS Awards, as well as with authors of other very interesting studies evaluating a wide range of subjects in the field o…

Listen to this interview featuring Dr. Jeremy Applebaum, who recently published "Impact of coronavirus disease 2019 vaccination on live birth rates after in vitro fertilization" Read the article https://www.fertstert.org/article/S0015-0282(23)02029-0/abstract View Fertility and Sterility at https://www.fertstert.org/…

Take a sneak peak at this month's Fertility and Sterility! Topics this month include the impact of COVID-19 vaccination on live birth rates after IVF (4:17), the "freeze-all" strategy in women with adenomyosis (13:47), the impact of adenomyosis on donor egg IVF cycles (24:54), ART associated risk factors for retained products of conception (30:00),…

In this month's Fertility and Sterility: Unplugged, we take a look at articles from F&S's sister journals! Topics this month include: fluoroscopic-guided hysteroscopic tubal cannulation (1:59), follicular-fluid phthalates and ovarian reserve (15:26), epigenetics of endometriosis (28:23), and decisions around embryo disposition (40:48). F&S Reports:…

Listen to this interview featuring Dr. Papri Sarkar and Dr. Phillip Romanski, who discuss their recent article "Optimal antimüllerian hormone levels in oocyte donors: a national database analysis." Read the article https://www.fertstert.org/article/S0015-0282(23)01992-1/abstract View Fertility and Sterility at https://www.fertstert.org/…

Take a sneak peek at this month's Fertility and Sterility! Topics this month include the optimal AMH level in oocyte donors (5:23), the role of the mean number of DNA breakpoints (MDB) in sperm DNA integrity and IVF outcomes (12:29), declining FET outcomes with increasing female BMI (22:38), higher live birth rates in normal BMI PGT-A FET cycles (3…

In this month's Fertility & Sterility: Unplugged, we take a look at articles from F&S's sister journals! Topics this month include: HCG as a predictor of pregnancy outcome after IVF (1:38), progestin ovulation suppression and embryo development (13:30), expanded carrier screening in sperm donors (29:30), and the future of fertility in the metaverse…

Take a sneak peak at this month's Fertility & Sterility! Topics this month include the association between thick endometrium with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (3:40), state insurance mandates and racial ethnic inequities in ART (12:45), azoospermia factor c microdeletions and outcomes of art (18:20), sperm production in men with azoospermia …

Listen to this interview featuring Dr. Ranjith Ramasamy and Dr. Braian Ledesma, who discuss their recent article "Fertility outcomes in men with prior history of anabolic steroid use." A medical researcher and urologist, Dr. Ramasamy is known for academic contributions to reproductive medicine, including testosterone deficiency, regenerative therap…

Take a sneak peak at this month's Fertility & Sterility! Topics this month include rebiopsy and analysis of noneuploid embryos with 2 distinct PGT platforms (6:01), mobile phone use and semen quality (25:22), steroid use and fertility outcomes (33:54), estradiol levels during programmed frozen embryo transfer cycles (43:25), gender differences in l…

In this month's Fertility & Sterility: Unplugged, we take a look at articles from F&S's sister journals! Topics this month include: the growing role of private equity in fertility care with special guests Jane Zhu and Paula Amato (1:26), ART outcomes after fertility-sparing treatment for endometrial neoplasia (21:00), testicular compensation after …

Take a sneak peek at this month's Fertility & Sterility! Topics this month include scientific integrity (1:59), chromosomal, gestational, and neonatal outcomes of mosaic embryos (6:26), risk of congenital malformations after ICSI (15:15), successful cryptozoospermia management with multiple semen specimen collection (28:58), and fertility preservat…

Fertility and Sterility on Air brings you some great interviews from ASRM 2023 in New Orleans, LA! In this bonus episode, we bring you a joint episode with the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists and the Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology. Join Pietro Bortoletto, Samantha Pfeiffer, Charles Miller, and Katie Coyne in discussing …

Fertility & Sterility on Air brings you some great interviews from ASRM 2023 in New Orleans, LA! In Part 2, we bring you some more science, including the first prize paper and discussion with two of our plenary speakers, followed by a focus on the ASRM mission. Topics include: clinical outcomes of mosaic embryo transfers (Manuel Viotti, Svetlana Ma…

Fertility & Sterility on Air brings you some great interviews from ASRM 2023 in New Orleans, LA! In Part 1, we discuss science with leaders in the field and presenters from the conference. Topics include rates of vasectomy after the overturn of Roe v. Wade (Jessica Schardein) (1:11), ultrasound-guided ovarian ablation for PCOS (Karl Hansen) (6:32),…

In this month's Fertility & Sterility: Unplugged, we take a look at articles from F&S's sister journals! Topics this month include: a discussion of the limitations of peer review (1:47), a case of an accessory cavitated uterine mass (12:31), fertility outcomes after uterine niche repair (20:07), and comparing artificial intelligence to embryologist…

Presented in partnership with Fertility and Sterility onsite at the 2023 ESHRE 39th Annual Meeting in Copenhagen. To date, recurrent implantation failure (RIF) has no clear definition and no clearly identified impaired function. Hence, the term RIF is currently used somewhat haphazardly, on the basis of clinicians’ judgment. International experts i…

Take a sneak peak at this month's Fertility & Sterility! Topics this month include whether sperm quality affects reproductive outcomes (2:20), CRISPR for human embryonic editing (6:00), the appropriate length of REI training (12:28), meeting the US demand for fertility services (14:44), testosterone and LH as predictors of semen parameter improveme…

In this month's Fertility & Sterility: Unplugged, we take a look at articles from F&S's sister journals! Topics this month include: IVF outcomes for patients with HIV (1:33), using sperm methylation patterns to determine IUI and IVF success (13:40), a survey of the public's views on embryo disposition (24:35), and a special visit from F&S Reviews E…

Take a sneak peak at this month's Fertility & Sterility! Topics this month include the promise and peril of using ChatGPT as a fertility counseling tool (5:55), the impact of elevated serum progesterone levels before FET on reproductive outcomes (21:10), Bologna vs Poseidon criteria as predictors of the likelihood of obtaining at least 1 euploid em…

In this month's Fertility & Sterility: Unplugged, we take a look at articles from F&S's sister journals! Topics this month include: medications that impair male fertility (1:53), IVF after gender-affirming hormonal therapy in a mouse model (16:26), a randomized trial of follicular vs. luteal IVF starts (22:46), and whether artificial intelligence c…