Fertility and Sterility On Air
Podcast Episodes
Mar 12, 2023
Take a sneak peak at this month's Fertility & Sterility! Topics this month include a discussion on racial and ethnic disparities in ART (1:04), Covid-19 vaccination and mestrual cycle changes (1:32), opiod use and risk of opiod abuse in male reproductive surgery patients (8:14), male HPV infection and risk of idiopathic recurrent pregnancy loss (16:44),uterine niche and adverse IVF/ICSI outcomes (23:43), association between AMH and ploidy (31:04) and fertility preservation technique for young women with breast cancer (40:18).
Podcast Episodes
Feb 26, 2023
In this month's Fertility & Sterility: Unplugged, we take a look at articles from each of F&S's sister journals! Topics this month include: a review of IVF cost reduction (1:00), a closer look at male factor infertility with use of sperm chromatin fragmentation (14:44), and the use of testosterone use before fertility preservation (26:56).
Podcast Episodes
Feb 12, 2023
Take a sneak peak at this month's Fertility & Sterility! Topics this month include a discussion on using national surveillance data for fresh versus frozen embryo transfer research (02:42), user-controlled male contraception (12:10), endometrial receptivity assay (ERA)before frozen embryo transfer (22:25), sleep and pregnancy outcomes (35:09), risk of stillbirth and neonatal death after fresh and frozen embryo transfers (41:59), ART in women with Multiple Sclerosis (46:13) and intimate partner violence among women with fertility treatment (51:09).
Podcast Episodes
Jan 22, 2023
In this month's Fertility & Sterility: Unplugged, we take a look at articles from each of F&S's sister journals! Topics this month include: cytokine profiles associated with miscarriage (1:18), a review of blood and urine biomarkers for endometriosis (10:42), and embryonic aneuploidy rates in patients with recurrent pregnancy loss (23:38).
Podcast Episodes
Jan 15, 2023
Take a sneak peak at this month's Fertility & Sterility! Topics this month include the impact of genetics lab on euploid and live birth rates (01:58), pregnancy & neonatal outcomes after long-term vitrification (09:44), risk of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy in donated-embryos pregnancies (18:08), diagnosing ectopic pregnancy using Bayes theorem (25:42), markers of ovarian reserve as predictors of future fertility (34:36) and letrozole-induced ovulation in women with PCOS and letrozole resistance (40:46).
Podcast Episodes
Dec 18, 2022
In this month's Fertility & Sterility: Unplugged, we take a look at articles from each of F&S's sister journals! Topics this month include: a review of in vitro oocyte maturation (1:26), a novel approach using mitochondria transfer to rescue ovarian aging (18:01), and a randomized-control trial on oil- vs water-based contrast for sono-hysterosalpingogram (26:45).
Podcast Episodes
Dec 11, 2022
Take a sneak peak at this month's Fertility & Sterility! Topics this month include outcomes after intrauterine insemination in low AMH versus normal AMH women (2:57), impact of low initial serum hCGs after IVF pregnancies on pregnancy complications and placental pathology (18:23), single embryo transfer of good quality embryo versus double embryo transfer with 2nd poor-quality embryo (29:00), cardiometabolic health outcomes in fresh vs frozen embryo transfers (41:15), pathways of mTOR in primary ovarian insufficiency (52:36) and a review of surgery for endometriomas (56:58)
Podcast Episodes
Nov 27, 2022
Fertility & Sterility brings you some great interviews from ASRM 2022 in Anaheim, CA! In Part 2, we discuss how the people of ASRM are impacting the field and the community. Topics include advocacy for reproductive rights (Serena Chen, Natalie Crawford, Sean Tipton) (00:41), the future of ASRM with Dr. Michael Thomas (14:52), a look at the a pilot ASRM Pipeline Mentoring Program (22:36), a chat about F&S Reviews (35:17), a look at the Stanford REI Physician Survey (39:36), a look at venture capital in REI with Dr. David Sable (43:07), a chat about F&S Reports (47:09), a physician's path to industry with Dr. Vrunda Desai (53:03), the SRS Surgical Scholars Program (1:00:51), a chat with the SART Podcast team (1:06:13), a chat about F&S Science (1:10:04), and a look at the Reproductive Health Justice Summit (1:13:41).
Podcast Episodes
Nov 27, 2022
Fertility & Sterility brings you some great interviews from ASRM 2022 in Anaheim, CA! In Part 1, we discuss science with leaders in the field and prefesenters from the conference. Topics this month include career-focused women and family planning (Jen Bakkenson) (3:20), live imaging of embryo development (Nicholas Plachta) (8:02), predicting outcomes using AMH in fertilty preservation (Cassandra Roeca) (19:15), IVF stimulation outcomes by race and ethnicity (Iris Lee) (21:09), a chat with Dr. Beth Rakowsky (30:53), assessing expansion of fertility preservation coverage (Allison Komorowski) (35:47), a discussion on uterine NK cells in reproduction (Jessica Kanter) (39:56), the potential of mitochondrial enhacement (Richard Scott) (44:15), updates in recurrent implantation failure (Paul Pirtea, Dominique De Ziegler) (49:43) and a discussion about male infertility (Luis Hoyos, Thomas Masterson) (1:00:18).
Podcast Episodes
Nov 13, 2022
Take a sneak peak at this month's Fertility & Sterility! Topics this month include longitudinal semen assesment and live birth (2:20), placenta previas in ART pregnancies (11:35), cost-effectiveness for cryopreservation based on SART data (19:12), systematic review of subsequent pregnancy outcomes in couples with parental abnormal chromosomal karyotypes & recurrent pregnancy loss (28:42), prevelance of endometrioma in deep infiltrative endometriosis (39:40) and perinatal outcomes of singleton and twin pregnancies using donor versus partner sperm (45:01).
Podcast Episodes
Oct 23, 2022
In this month's Fertility & Sterility: Unplugged, we take a look at articles from each of F&S's sister journals! Topics this month include: a meta-analysis and updates on endometrial receptivity assay (1:29), a potential therapeutic to improve pregnancy in a mouse model of endometriosis (12:16), and the association of frozen embryo transfer with large for gestational age infants (20:27).
Podcast Episodes
Oct 09, 2022
Take a sneak peak at this month's Fertility & Sterility! Topics this month include the natural history of fibroids in pregnancy (1:54), semen quality in sons of subfertile couples (09:33), oocyte maturity ratio and live birth rate (18:41), pregnancy outcomes after frozen transfer using Letrozole (22:28), endometrial receptivity assay after failed transfer attempt (36:08), colorectal cancer risk after use of fertility drugs (45:08), and cesarean-section scar defects and abnormal uterine bleeding (56:13).
Podcast Episodes
Oct 02, 2022
In this month's Fertility & Sterility: Unplugged, we take a look at articles from each of F&S's sister journals! Topics this month include: the association of obesity with upregulation of inflammatory cytokines in follicular fluid with guest author Samantha Schon (1:05), examining the nongenetic risk factors contributing to racial disparities in the prevalence of uterine fibroids (8:19), and using SART data to examine pregnancy outcomes after embryo transfer (16:00).
Podcast Episodes
Sep 18, 2022
How can we improve managing a poor ovarian response in the patient with diminished ovarian reserve? This Journal Club Global discusses the April 2022 Views and Reviews Series in F&S, in conjuction with the faculty and fellows of Boston IVF and UCSF.
Podcast Episodes
Sep 11, 2022
Take a sneak peak at this month's Fertility & Sterility! Topics this month include ICSI vs IVF for non-male factor infertility (01:42), geographic variations of semen parameters (10:18), euploid embryos and chance of subsequent live birth (19:38), DOR diagnosis and aneuploidy and live birth rate (31:06), interpregnancy intervals in ART pregnancies (38:15) and uterine transplantation outcomes (45:32).
Podcast Episodes
Aug 28, 2022
In this month's Fertility & Sterility: Unplugged, we take a look at articles from each of F&S's sister journals! Topics this month include: the impact of the pandemic on access to reproductive healthcare with authors Jasmine Aly and Alicia Christy (0:33), the association of the pandemic and phthalate levels in follicular fluid (13:15), and a comparison of clinician learning curves with the ASRM Embryo Transfer simulator (19:32).
Podcast Episodes
Aug 21, 2022
This month's Fertility & Sterility is live from ESHRE 2022 in Milan, Italy! Listen to interviews from a few of the presenters. Topics in Part 1 include Apps for TIC (3:14), AI for cycle optimization (11:26), Time-lapse imaging (11:35), Poor quality embryo transfer (26:16), Embryo morphokenetics & ploidy status (33:36), 3rd party origin children’s book (39:54), 3D Embyro Construction (43:54), Pregnancy after breast cancer (53:03), and Evaluation of the Duostim protocol (57:44).
Podcast Episodes
Aug 21, 2022
This month's Fertility & Sterility is live from ESHRE 2022 in Milan, Italy! Listen to interviews from a few of the presenters. Topics in Part 2 include a conversation with Rick LeGrow (1:01), Route of Progesterone administration (6:26), Thyroid hormone replacement (16:12), A discussion about ICMART (21:12), Endometriosis testing in blood (28:26), Ovarian stimulation and subsequent breast cancer (35:34), Semen analysis tests comparison (39:48) and Evacuating embryos from Ukraine (43:30).
Podcast Episodes
Aug 14, 2022
Take a sneak peak at this month's Fertility & Sterility! Topics this month include a Fertile Battle on optimal endometrial lining in ART (2:00), an RCT using FSH with a trigger (8:40), the relationship between paternal factors and embryonic aneuploidy of paternal origin (20:00), an RCT looking at live birth using the endometrial receptivity analysis (27:35), risk of miscarriage after treatment for chronic endometritis and IVF/ICSI (41:25), Cardiometabolic risks in middle childhood (47:00) and evaluating the efficacy of different treatments for c-section scar ectopics (51:40).
Podcast Episodes
Aug 07, 2022
This Journal Club Global discusses a provocative article recently published in Fertility and Sterility Reviews. The study's objective was to identify models predicting live birth or ongoing pregnancy in couples with unexplained recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL), and to evaluate the risk of bias, performance, generalizability, and applicability of these models.
Podcast Episodes
Jul 24, 2022
In this month's Fertility & Sterility: Unplugged, we take a look at articles from each of F&S's sister journals! Topics this month include: high sensitivity C reactive protein and pregnancy outcomes with guest Sarah Gavrizi (0:56), new techniques to optimize outcomes in ovarian tissue cryopreservation (10:54), and a review of the evidence on factors that affect euploid blastocyst implantation (21:33).
Podcast Episodes
Jul 10, 2022
Take a sneak peak at this month's Fertility & Sterility! Topics this month include a cost-effectiveness analysis of PGT-M vs prenatal diagnosis for Huntington disease (3:20), a machine learning model for predicting the optimal day of trigger (13:00), a systematic review and meta-analysis of Vitamin D and miscarriage (26:13), AMH and leukocyte aging markers (32:20), 15 years of autologous oocyte thaw outcomes from one academic fertility center (43:20) and look at the relation between smoking and infertility (50:56).
Podcast Episodes
Jun 19, 2022
In this month's Fertility & Sterility: Unplugged, we take a look at articles from each of F&S's sister journals! Topics this month include: an updated review on immunotherapy and recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL) (01:38), identifying immunologic biomarkers for RPL patients in peripheral and menstrual blood (15:38), and a randomized trial to assess a multimedia educational intervention for patients undergoing assisted reproductive technologies (22:55).
Podcast Episodes
Jun 05, 2022
Take a sneak peak at this month's Fertility and Sterility! Topics this month include effect of follicle size on embryology outcomes (2:30); RCT using time-lapse for embryo selection (13:30); obstetric and neonatal risk of ART outside of infertility diagnosis (22:17); embryo culture systems and obstetrical outcomes (26:11); metabolites and risk of post-surgical pelvic pain in adolescents with endometriosis (35:24); decision regret in older IVF patients (40:18).
Podcast Episodes
May 29, 2022
In this month's Fertility & Sterility: Unplugged, we take a look at articles from each of F&S's sister journals! Topics this month are: 3-D bioprinting testicular tissue (01:45), challenging the use of antioxidants for male factor infertility (11:27), and managing pregnancy loss with hysteroscopy (22:18).
Podcast Episodes
May 15, 2022
Take a sneak peak at this month's Fertility and Sterility! Topics this month include risk of ovarian cancer after BSO in women with endometriosis (1:14); infertility care during public health crises (11:53); effectiveness and safety of IUI (21:54); COVID-19 immunity on FET outcomes (33:18); effect of unilateral oopherectomy on IVF outcomes (39:30); genetic abnormalities in couples with recurrent pregnancy loss (45:13); steroid biosynthesis in poor responders (51:15); and route of myomectomy and fertility outcomes (58:32).
View the May 2022 issue of Fertility and Sterility, Volume 117, No. 5 at https://www.fertstert.org/issue/S0015-0282(21)X0019-2
Podcast Episodes
Apr 24, 2022
In this month's Fertility and Sterility: Unplugged, we take a look at articles from each of F&S's sister journals! Topics this month are: use of follicular phase estradiol for programming donor oocyte cycles (1:34), evaluating models to predict prognosis in recurrent pregnancy loss (12:03), and two studies about the cyclic fertilin peptide, which can improve blastocyst formation (20:03).
Podcast Episodes
Apr 17, 2022
Take a sneak peak at this month's Fertility & Sterility! Topics this month include evaluting telehealth a valuable resource in REI (2:25), the Rotterdam criteria (6:34), impact of THC on testicular volume and male reproductive health in rhesus macaques (8:52), Lessons learned after pandemic & use of ART for sex selection for non-medical reasons (13:13), machine learning for euploid predication (22:47), follicular activation for DOR (34:05), placental pathology from ART conceived infants (40:38), optimal endometrial thickness in fresh and frozen IVF cycles (50:05), fresh embryo transfer following in-vitro semination in fresh vs cryopreserved anonymous donor oocytes (1:00:57) and uterine fibroids and AMH concentrations in African-American women (1:07:51).
Podcast Episodes
Mar 27, 2022
In Fertility & Sterility: Unplugged, we take a look at an article from each of F&S's sister journals! Topics this month are: the effect of estrogen therapy on spermatogenesis in transgender women (00:52), time to menses resumption after tesosterone cessation in a transgender mouse model (11:35), and a systemic review and meta-analysis comparing live birth rate for ICSI to conventional IVF (20:21).
