Word: endocrinologist
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Each year an estimated 200,000 American women, roughly 15% to 20% of those having difficulty becoming pregnant, take fertility drugs, and some experts suggest that they are now being overused. "There are no magic fertility pills," says Reproductive Endocrinologist Martin Quigley of the Cleveland Clinic. "Some physicians may be using them indiscriminately in response to patient demands...
...variations on the original technique are multiplying almost as fast as the test-tube population. Already it is possible for Reproductive Endocrinologist Martin Quigley of the Cleveland Clinic to speak of "oldfashioned IVF" (in which a woman's eggs are removed, fertilized with her husband's sperm and then placed in her uterus). "The modern way," he notes, "mixes and matches donors and recipients" (see chart page 49). Thus a woman's egg may be fertilized with a donor's sperm, or a donor's egg may be fertilized with the husband's sperm, or, in yet another scenario...
...happens, they were wrong. Says Gynecologist Howard Jones, who, together with his wife, Endocrinologist Georgeanna Seegar Jones, founded the first American in-vitro program at Norfolk in 1978: "It turns out that if you get the sperm to the egg quickly, most often you inhibit the process." According to Jones, the pioneers of IVF made so many wrong assumptions that "the birth of Louise Brown now seems like a fortunate coincidence...
...Bargers are victims of what Reproductive Endocrinologist Martin Quigley of the Cleveland Clinic calls "an epidemic" of infertility in the U.S. In the past 20 years, the incidence of barrenness has nearly tripled, so that today one in six American couples is designated as infertile, the scientific term for those who have tried to conceive for a year or more without success. More than a million of these desperate couples seek the help of doctors and clinics every year. Women no longer carry the sole blame for childless marriages. Research has found that male deficiencies are the cause...
Some independent researchers suggest that the investment is a poor one. Reproductive Endocrinologist Sandra Carson helped test the Gametrics method at Chicago's Michael Reese Hospital. Although early results seemed encouraging, she says, "the final figures were insignificant." In their testing, Reese researchers found that the Gametrics sperm-separation method did not raise the concentration of Y sperm high enough to influence gender...