July 7th, 2008
The annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology began this Sunday in Spain and will last until Wednesday. That’s nearly a full week of professionals getting together in Barcelona to think about the thing that many of us think about all the time - how to get us pregnant.
A Reuters […]
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July 2nd, 2008
Chapter six of Fully Fertile: A 12-Week Plan for Optimal Fertility is entitled, Identifying and Eliminating Your Stressors, and in it, a section is dedicated to your job and the stresses it brings to your life:
So many women who are trying to conceive wonder if quitting their jobs would reduce their stress, and, therefore, […]
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May 18th, 2008
You have one more day to celebrate National Women’s Health Week.
Don’t feel like leaving the house today? Just stop by the Women’s Health Expo at Revolution Health. It’s kind of like an online health fair. Even better, Revolution Health will make a donation to an organization every time you click on its booth. Lots of […]
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May 7th, 2008
Gloria at Cancer Commentary has a great post and a contest related to early testing for the human papillomavirus (HPV). Here are some facts about HPV (thanks to Digene HPV Test) that you should know:
Cervical cancer kills 288,000 women annually worldwide.
Cervical cancer is the only cancer with a single known cause – the human papillomavirus […]
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April 22nd, 2008
Last year, a bipartisan group of U.S. Representatives introduced the Conquer Childhood Cancer Act, a piece of legislation which would provide critical resources for the treatment, prevention and cure of childhood cancer.
According to www.CureSearch.org,
more than 12,500 children who are diagnosed with cancer each year. Over 40,000 children and adolescents currently are being treated for […]
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April 13th, 2008
I have to admit, I have been sweating about this article in the most recent New Atlantis ever since I was interviewed for it several months ago. It felt like I rambled. Did I ramble? Some questions felt loaded. Am I being baited? Did I take the bait? What’s the bait? What’s the desired […]
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March 21st, 2008
Today marks 20 years cancer free for me.
This means I am part of an ever-growing group of young adult survivors of childhood cancers. And finally, finally! thanks to increased odds of remission and survival rates, we are growing large enough in numbers that lasting effects of chemotherapy, radiation and other treatments can be studied and […]
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February 22nd, 2008
FYI, this is the weekend of the Penn State Dance Marathon, the largest student-run fundraiser in the world. Proceeds (now in the millions each year) go to my all time favorite charity (FertileHope is a close second), the Four Diamonds Fund:
The Four Diamonds Fund is named after a story that Christopher Millard wrote shortly […]
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February 14th, 2008
Funny how I have no problem spilling my infertile guts to you, dear reader, yet it has taken me months to get up the nerve to talk to my own parents.
Obviously, they are aware of the post-cancer, no egg scenario. They were there. But even though Michael and I have been exploring our options for […]
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February 4th, 2008
I was actually going to post this as a response to a comment left on Stirrup Queens and Sperm Palace Jesters, but then I decided it was too off topic and I would have been responding not the post itself, which was wonderful, but to one of the comments left for it.
I’m bothered by the […]
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