DNA testing forever changed donor conception
DNA testing (and the family secrets it sometimes reveals) has been in the news a lot this year. As Dani Shapiro’s memoir Inheritance made clear, a simple DNA test can upend an identity and dismantle a family story. Those of us working in the field of reproductive medicine know that Shapiro’s story is far from unique. Increasingly often, young (and not so young) adults learn “by accident” that they were donor-conceived.
Readers may wonder how this happens. How can parents keep a secret so significant from their children? As a therapist whose practice includes many parents who had children through donor conception, I...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - July 23, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ellen S. Glazer, LICSW Tags: Fertility Infertility Mental Health Source Type: blogs
A super duper IVF success story !
You hear IVF success stories every now and again but I'm sure ours will be a super duper one!We, Susan and Sunil Silva got married 11 years ago, we didn't have (any biological) kids because my husband had undergone a vasectomy in his previous marriage, after fathering 2 boys. The elder one is with his ex while the younger onechose to be with us- apple of my eye, my son! About 7 years ago we started thinking about having one more child anddecided to give it a try undergoing an IVF ! I started reading and searching for best IVF clinics in the internet and always Dr Malpani's clinic came first in the list and I literally...
Source: Dr.Malpani's Blog - June 23, 2019 Category: Reproduction Medicine Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Becoming a Parent with Mental Illness
Having children is a deeply personal choice and one that should not be taken lightly. Ensuring that you are financially able, emotionally stable, and mature enough to withstand the rigors of parenting is something that every person must do. All that said, how does one factor their own mental illness concerns into the decision?
Should people like Gabe and Michelle – one who lives with bipolar and the other, schizophrenia – have children? Is the risk of passing on the burdens of mental illness too great of a risk? Does having mental illness mean you can’t be a good parent? Where is the line?
Our hosts discuss all this...
Source: World of Psychology - May 27, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: A Bipolar, a Schizophrenic, and a Podcast Tags: A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast Parenting Relationships Schizophrenia Source Type: blogs
What Is Best After Tubal Ligation: Untying Tubes or IVF?
Do you regret your tubal ligation?
Have you asked yourself what is best after tubal ligation? Untying tubes or IVF?
If your tubes have been tied and you want another baby then you have two options:
In-vitro fertilization (IVF)
Tubal ligation reversal surgery (Untying tubes)
Both treatments can be successful.
Unfortunately, many people, including doctors, are not aware that untying your tubes can give you much better chances at becoming pregnant than IVF.
Benefits of Untying Tubes
Untying tubes is often half the cost of IVF. Surgery to untie your tubes (tubal reversal) can allow you the chance to become pregnant every month...
Source: Tubal Reversal Blog - April 5, 2019 Category: Reproduction Medicine Authors: Dr. Monteith Tags: IVF Tubal Reversal Surgery untying tubes Source Type: blogs
Where Is The Best Place For Untying Tubes?
The best place for untying tubes is A Personal Choice in Raleigh, North Carolina.
If you think untying your tubes is not possible… or if you think Raleigh is too far from you then you should continue reading.
Dr. Monteith is the Medical Director of A Personal Choice and he is committed to making surgery for untying tubes affordable and successful for his patients.
No distance is too far to travel if you are serious about having another child after your tubes have been tied…whether you are a woman who had tubal ligation or a man who had vasectomy….the best place for untying tubes is
Dr. Monteith’s sp...
Source: Tubal Reversal Blog - March 27, 2019 Category: Reproduction Medicine Authors: Dr. Monteith Tags: best place for untying tubes Dr. Monteith tubal reversal vasectomy reversal Source Type: blogs
Is Tubal Reversal Possible?
All women are told their tubes cannot be untied…. the reality is most tubal ligations can be reversed.
Many women will regret their tubal ligation and at some point in their lives and question is tubal reversal possible?
Dr. Monteith is a tubal reversal specialist in Raleigh, North Carolina who specializes in making tubal reversal possible.
Is tubal reversal possible? What is the cost?
Baby born after reversal of burned tubes
Dr. Monteith performs tubal reversal in his specialty center at an affordable price.
Patients travel from across the United States to have reversal surgery at his center.
More information: Cost ...
Source: Tubal Reversal Blog - March 4, 2019 Category: Reproduction Medicine Authors: Dr. Monteith Tags: in-vitro fertilization is tubal reversal possible monteith North Carolina pregnant raleigh Source Type: blogs
Physicians should talk about the F word: fertility
My fertility journey is not typical. I have not spent years “trying.” In fact, I have spent years trying not to get pregnant! My husband has two daughters — and a vasectomy, so getting pregnant was a known challenge. Luckily, I like challenges. We went to an infertility specialist, who told us that reversal was […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 3, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/melissa-e-parsons" rel="tag" > Melissa E. Parsons, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
Tubal Reversal Deals: New Hotels, New Financing!
If you have been looking for tubal reversal deals then look no further than A Personal Choice!
Dr. Monteith is starting 2019 off with a series of new tubal reversal deals for couples thinking about tubal reversal or vasectomy reversal surgery.
These new deals should help make tubal reversal more affordable for those many considering reversal surgery.
What exactly are these new tubal reversal deals?
Tubal Reversal Deals: More Affordable Hotels!
In previous years, we offered to pay for the hotel stay for surgery patients during the months of January and February. These were our New Year and Valentine’s Day specials. ...
Source: Tubal Reversal Blog - December 21, 2018 Category: Reproduction Medicine Authors: Dr. Monteith Tags: a personal choice Dr. Monteith hotels tubal reversal deals Source Type: blogs
Financing tubal reversal surgery: sign up for advance care!
Have you looked into financing tubal reversal surgery?
A Monteith Miracle Tubal Reversal Baby!
Tubal reversal surgery can be expensive. Not only is reversal surgery expensive, but health insurance and Medicaid will not pay to have your tubes rejoined.
Many women will delay reversal surgery until they have the funds for surgery. Unfortunately, some of these women…if they wait too long to have surgery… may be decreasing their chances of pregnancy by waiting and getting older. Financing tubal reversal can be a good way to have surgery now (while you are younger) and pay for surgery later (as you become older).
Dr...
Source: Tubal Reversal Blog - December 9, 2018 Category: Reproduction Medicine Authors: Dr. Monteith Tags: Financing advance care financing tubal reversal surgery Source Type: blogs
45 Administration Provides New HCP Protections | Permits HCPs to Discriminate
by Lori Bruce, MA
News broke this week that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is creating a new “Conscience and Religious Freedom Division” (CRFD) in the Office for Civil Rights. This new division will support healthcare workers who refuse to treat patients based on moral or religious convictions: “OCR enforces laws and regulations that protect the free exercise of religion and prohibit discrimination in HHS-funded or conducted programs and activities.” U.S. law defines the exercise of religion as “any exercise of religion, whether or not compelled by, or central to, a system of religious belief....
Source: blog.bioethics.net - January 20, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Lori Bruce Tags: Featured Posts Health Policy & Insurance Health Regulation & Law Politics Conscience and Religious Freedom Division conscientious objection religion Source Type: blogs
Tubal Reversal Bargain: Valentine ’s Day Special Hotel Included!
2018 Valentine’s Day Tubal Reversal Bargain!
All patients having reversal surgery completed during the month of February 2018 will have their two-night luxury hotel stay included in the cost of their reversal surgery!
This tubal reversal bargain is also available to Essure reversal/removal and vasectomy reversal patients.
Usually the price of reversal surgery with
Dr. Monteith includes everything except the cost of travel, food, and hotel stay.
In the past, Dr. Monteith has offered to include the hotel as part of a New Years Day or Valentines day deal. This past tubal reversal bargain was so popular, he has decided t...
Source: Tubal Reversal Blog - December 30, 2017 Category: Reproduction Medicine Authors: Dr. Monteith Tags: tubal reversal bargain Source Type: blogs
Strong study shows no link between vasectomy and prostate cancer
In the 1980s, reports began to surface of a potential connection between vasectomies and prostate cancer. This worried men considering vasectomies for birth control, but it was also controversial. Some studies detected an association while others didn’t. Harvard Prostate Knowledge last covered the topic in 2015, after the largest study to that point detected slightly higher risks of high-grade prostate cancer among men who had a vasectomy compared to men who hadn’t.
Now that study has been eclipsed by an even larger one.
Here’s how the analysis worked
For this new effort, researchers with the Mayo Clinic in Rochester...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - August 23, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Charlie Schmidt Tags: Family Planning and Pregnancy Prostate Health Source Type: blogs
Eugenics in Tennessee
A recent news story from my home state of Tennessee brings up questions of informed consent, reproductive ethics, eugenics, opioid abuse, and other bioethical issues. In May, White County judge Sam Benningfield issued an order that allows inmates to have their sentences reduced by thirty days if they consent to sterilization procedures: vasectomies for men and (reversible) Nexplanon implants for women. Benningfield’s order is his... // Read More » (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - July 25, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Janie Valentine Tags: Health Care bioethics syndicated Source Type: blogs
Is the Direct Primary Care Model Dead?
By NIRAN AL-AGBA, MD
A recent Medical Economics article asked “Is the DPC model at risk of failing?”
The piece focuses on two large DPC-like organizations, Qliance Medical Management of Seattle, Washington and Turntable Health of Las Vegas, NV, working in partnership with Iora Health, which recently closed their doors. Qliance and Turntable were not actually DPC practices by strict definition; they were innovative large business operations providing healthcare services to patients and excluding third party payers. Their idea was commendable, but their closure indicates little cause for concern in regard to the growing ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 6, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Qliance Turntable Health Source Type: blogs
