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Can You Give Your Patients Too Much Information?
Sonja Kristiansen, MD
, April 24, 2012
Like many of my patients, my life revolves around information. Personally, I use the same technology as most of you to keep track of obligations and loved ones. Professionally, the Houston Fertility Center team uses technology and constant communication to manage our patients' treatment plans.
The Fertility Preservation Pipeline Is Clogged for Women with Cancer
Sonja Kristiansen, MD
, April 3, 2012
Here's a situation that illustrates how fantastic medical advances don't always translate to patients benefiting in the clinic. For that to happen, the science needs to be carried along a pipeline of practitioner communication, all the way to the patient.
Treating “Religious Infertility”
Lawrence Grunfeld, MD
, January 27, 2012
 Orthodox Jewish women may follow an ancient tradition that requires sexual abstention during her menses and for the seven days that follow. Once the woman has completed this, she immerses in a ritual bath to purify her soul and then is encouraged to have intercourse with her husband but when your patient experiences infertility, how do you treat the infertility while maintaining respect for her religious traditions?
What are they? What causes them to grow?
Paul D. Indman, MD
, October 2, 2011
 What are Uterine Fibroids?
The walls of the uterus are made of smooth muscle called myometrium, and the inside lining, with glandular tissue, is called endometrium. “Uterine fibroid” is a slang term for leiomyoma, or often simply myoma. Fibroids are benign tumors made of smooth muscle cells.
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| | GUEST BLOGGER David Holtz, MD David Holtz is a practicing Gynecologic Oncologist with Main Line Gynecologic Oncology Associates and the Director of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology for the Main Line Health System. He is the first gynecologic surgeon in Pennsylvania to perform procedures for uterine and cervical cancer with the daVinci Robot, and he is a Clinical Assistant Professor with Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and the Lankenau Institute for Medical Research. Dr. Holtz’s clinical interests include minimally invasive surgery for women’s cancers and nanoparticles in the treatment of ovarian cancer. |  | GUEST BLOGGER Donald Shuwarger, MD Dr Don Shuwarger is a board-certified general ob/gyn practicing in northwest North Dakota. His career spans 26 years, most of which has been spent serving smaller cities. He earned his MD from Baylor College of Medicine in 1981 where he completed his ob/gyn residency in 1985. He earned his MBA from UMass-Amherst in 2005. In 2008 Shuwarger took a sabbatical to join the US Antarctic Program as a physician at McMurdo Station and the new Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. From 2009 - 2010 he was the Chief Medical Officer at the US Army Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. He has one 22 year old daughter who is an EMT and is studying to be a registered nurse. |  | GUEST BLOGGER Amy Tuteur, MD Dr Tuteur is an obstetrician gynecologist. She received her undergraduate degree from Harvard College, her medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine, and did her internship and residency at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital. Dr Tuteur is a former clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School. She left the practice of medicine to raise her four children. She blogs at The Skeptical OB. |  | ISSUES IN INFERTILITY Reproductive Medicine Associates of New York RMA of New York offers patients up-to-date, appropriate infertility treatment in a caring, compassionate manner. |  | ISSUES IN INFERTILITY Eric Flisser, MD Dr Flisser, MD is the Medical Director of Reproductive Medicine Associates of New York. He is Board Certified in Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility and in Obstetrics & Gynecology. He is an Associate Member of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and the Society for Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. He is also a member of the Nassau County Obstetrics and Gynecology Society, New York-Metropolitan Embryologist Society, and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. His professional interests include reproductive surgery, in vitro fertilization, and oocyte donation. |  | ULTRASOUND Joe Antony, MBBS, MD Dr Antony's expertise includes radio diagnosis, ultrasound and color Doppler imaging, x-ray imaging, CT imaging, and MR imaging. Presently, he is a consultant radiologist at PVS Hospital in Cohin, Kerala, India and is consultant radiologist and CEO of Ultrascan Centre, which is a color Doppler and ultrasound imaging clinic in Cochin, India.You can see his full ultrasound gallery at
ultrasound-images.com and sites.google.com/site/drjoea. He blogs at cochinblogs.blogspot.com and ultrasound-images.blogspot.com. |  | UTERINE FIBROIDS Paul Indman, MD Dr Indman, MD has helped pioneer techniques in gynecology and minimally invasive surgery. He has taught physicians locally, nationally, and internationally, and has published chapters in textbooks on advanced surgical techniques, and in numerous medical journals. Dr Indman is an editorial advisor on OBGYN.net. You can read more about him and his work on his eFibroids Web site.
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