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Unseen Infertility: Reflections from Obstetrics-Gynecology Rotation

September 20, 2021

A medical student reflects on infertility during rotation in the labor and delivery ward.

Jeong Jun Kim ⋅ A Day in the Life gyn/ob, infertility, reproductive health, Tuberculosis ⋅

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Fresh or Frozen Embryos? Equal Live-Birth Rates Among Infertile Women

February 13, 2018

About 40 years ago (July 1978), Louise Joy Brown was born at Oldham General Hospital in England, weighing 5 pounds, 12 ounces. This birth may sound like any ordinary baby story, but the conception and delivery of Louise, the first human conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF), symbolized the possibility of having children for women […]

Yazmin Rovira Gonzalez ⋅ Perspectives in Research infertility, IVF, pregnancy ⋅

The Wish for a Womb: How Uterus Transplants Can Make Pregnancy Possible

June 1, 2016

After success in Swedish trials, the first uterine transplant was performed at Cleveland Clinic in the United States this past February. The research in Sweden had shown that these transplanted uteruses could carry babies and produce live births. The often troublesome side effects of having a uterus — namely painful or heavy periods, among other […]

Diana Cholakian ⋅ Perspectives in Research infertility, pregnancy ⋅

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