GalleryProspective parents often leave their obstetrician’s office after the second trimester ultrasound with a grainy black and white image, a glimpse of their developing baby’s nose, fingers, or feet.
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CWRC White Plains Location Closes; Opens in Scarsdale
GalleryThe CWRC’s White Plains location will close today, Thursday, August 6, and will reopen at a new location in Scarsdale, on 696 White Plains Road, on Monday, August 17. Dr. Rachael McConnell will be the primary doctor at this location. For more information, please call the new Center at (914) 288-0408 or fax to (646) 756-6286.
CWRC Extends Special Egg Freezing Rate
GalleryThe special egg freezing rate offered by CWRC as part of the Egg Freezing for Fertility Preservation program has now been extended until December 31, 2015! During this special, a team of expert clinicians will provide the freezing cycle, and CWRC will offer three years of storage for only $9,700.
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Dr. Sauer Named Top Doctor for 17th Time!
GalleryMark V. Sauer, MD, program director for the Center for Women’s Reproductive Care, has been awarded the distinction of being named a Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. America Top Doctor annually since its inception in 1998 – and 2015 is no different. The prestigious award goes to the country’s best physicians, as published by Castle Connolly, America’s trusted source for identifying Top Doctors, based on the foundation of peer nomination.
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Breeding Out the Disease: Is PGD Right for You?
GalleryPre-implantation genetic diagnosis and screening (PGD/PGS) may be recommended during in vitro fertilization (IVF) to screen embryo(s) for certain genetic diseases or chromosomal abnormalities.
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Special Egg Freezing Rate Offered at CWRC
GalleryA special egg freezing rate is being offered by CWRC as part of the Egg Freezing for Fertility Preservation program. During this special, a team of expert clinicians will provide the freezing cycle, and CWRC will offer three years of storage for only $9,700.
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Perfect Storm of Science: Creating the First Disease-Specific Embryonic Stem Cell Line
Gallery“It almost sounds like science fiction. Almost.” While seated in his office, Mark V. Sauer, MD, Chief of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, leans forward in his chair and smiles, perhaps reflecting upon the magnitude of the research in which he and colleagues created the first disease-specific embryonic stem cell line – turning what was once considered to be imagined science into reality.
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Dr. Mark V. Sauer Named Super Doctor for 2015
GalleryMark V. Sauer, MD, has been named to the New York Super Doctors 2015 list. He is the program director for the Center for Women’s Reproductive Care (CWRC), and vice chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at CUMC.
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Same Sex Couples and Babies: So You’ve Decided to Conceive
GalleryAccording to Census results for 2010, it is estimated that more than 111,000 same sex couples – about 17 percent – are raising nearly 170,000 biological, adopted, or step children. Among female couples, nearly 24 percent are raising a biological, adopted, or step child, compared to 10 percent of male couples. While the decision and process to have a baby for a heterosexual couple may be relatively straightforward, for same sex couples, the path to parenthood is quite different. But knowledge is power. Dr. Briana Rudick, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Columbia University Medical Center and Director of the Fertility Program for Female Same Sex Couples at the Center for Women’s Reproductive Care, explains this process, and the steps these couples can take in order to have their own little bundle of joy.
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When is it Time to See a Fertility Specialist?
GalleryYour marriage is secure. Your career is flourishing. Life couldn’t be more picture-perfect. So you’ve decided that now would be the perfect time to grow your family and have been trying to get pregnant…and trying…and trying again. But while it seems everyone else around you is preggers and having adorable babies, you just can’t. Friends may give you the standard responses: “It’s not always easy to get pregnant.” “Don’t give up hope.” “It will happen, so just be patient.” Yet something inside of you is murmuring, “It shouldn’t be this hard.” If you have been struggling with these emotions, maybe it’s time to see a fertility specialist.
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