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Fertility Notes- a fertility blog with all the news your womb can use

July 30th, 2008

The 08-09 Cancer & Fertility Resource Guide is here!

All right! It’s here! I was going to save this for Freebie Friday, but I can’t wait.
The 2008-2009 version of Fertile Hope’s Cancer and Fertility Resource Guide is now available.  Click on the title to download a  free .pdf version or, go to http://www.fertilehope.org/learn-more/publications/print-materials.cfm to order 1 or 5 or 100. All free. Since this […]

By Gabrielle -- 0 comments

July 28th, 2008

Newsweek Shines a Light on Oncofertility

You may have heard the term Oncofertility mentioned here at Fertility Notes before.
A Newsweek article that will be published in the August 4th issue of the magazine gives a great explanation of what Oncofertility is and why it matters so much to cancer patients.
According to Newsweek:
Of the 125,000 people under the age of 45 who […]

By Gabrielle -- 1 comment

March 21st, 2008

Celebrating 20 Years Cancer Free

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 […]

By Gabrielle -- 4 comments

February 22nd, 2008

‘THON Weekend at Penn State University

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 […]

By Gabrielle -- 1 comment

February 4th, 2008

Infertility Blogs - Social Responsibility or Self Indulgence?

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 […]

By Gabrielle -- 5 comments

September 18th, 2007

The Oncofertility Consortium

Sounds like the name of a secret society or a collaboration of sinister characters one might find watching reruns of Alias or the X-Files. It is, in fact, a bold new initiative, funded by the National Institutes of Health, organized by Northwestern University that aims to protect the fertility of women who are undergoing radiation […]

By Gabrielle -- 1 comment

September 15th, 2007

Ahem, hello!

Welcome to Fertility Notes! My name is Gabrielle and my aim is to give you all the news your womb can use and hopefully a few good belly laughs as well.
Having a baby should be easy, right? Like riding a bike. Unfortunately, for some of us there are bumps along the way and […]

By Gabrielle -- 1 comment