From Numbers to Meaning: Defining Clinical Relevance in Reproductive Medicine Research

Early attrition after access to fertility care: racial disparities in completion rates of the diagnostic workup

There are established racial disparities in in vitro fertilization treatment, with Black women having lower pregnancy and live birth rates compared with White women (1). Although predictors of in

All our eggs in one basket: the false dichotomy of parenthood and a medical career

The road to becoming a physician is long and demanding, and for many medical students, family-building is often quietly deferred with each passing year. Fertility is estimated to be lower in

Racial and ethnic differences in gestational carriers: assessment of obstetric characteristics and outcomes

It is well known that racial and ethnic differences exist regarding maternal morbidity and mortality in the United States for pregnancies achieved both with and without assisted reproductive

Refining assisted reproductive technology strategy in nonobstructive azoospermia: synchrony, sperm quality, and oocyte availability

The retrospective cohort study by Moutos et al. (1) provides timely and clinically relevant insights into the outcomes of using fresh or vitrified oocytes in intracytoplasmic sperm injection

Comparing remote smartphone-based semen assessments with laboratory evaluations in men unselected for fertility concerns

To evaluate the quality of remote semen collection and a smartphone-based semen analysis system under real-world conditions compared with a laboratory assessment among participants who were

Comparing blastulation of surgically retrieved sperm with ejaculated sperm in donor oocyte cycles

To evaluate availability of usable blastocysts and blastulation from donor oocytes fertilized with surgically retrieved sperm among patients with obstructive azoospermia (OA) and nonobstructive

The chorionic bump is a predictor of miscarriage: a retrospective analysis of 13,656 in vitro fertilization pregnancies

To determine the prevalence of an ultrasound-defined chorionic bump (CB) in an in vitro fertilization (IVF) population and its association with clinical loss, preterm delivery, and additional

Validity of completely omitting endocrine and ultrasound monitoring in hormone replacement therapy protocols for frozen embryo transfer in good-prognosis patients undergoing single blastocyst transfer

To study whether omitting endocrine and ultrasound monitoring in hormone replacement therapy (HRT) cycles for frozen embryo transfer (FET) affects pregnancy rates in good-prognosis patients.

Celebrating 75 years of Fertility and Sterility with the past editors-in-chief: Drs. Craig Niederberger and Antonio Pellicer, 2011–2021

We have the honor of asking the former editors-in-chief 4 open-ended questions regarding their experience with Fertility and Sterility: Craig Niederberger, M.D., and Antonio Pellicer, M.D.,