Serum IVF Clinic in Greece Offering Patients the Highest Standards of Fertility Care

The renowned fertility doctors at Serum IVF are leaders in the field of reproductive medicine — and are committed to a focused, patient-centered treatment approach.

This extensive experience combined with advanced technology enables the fertility specialists at Serum IVF Clinic to help patients around the globe reach parenthood.

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Does Age Really Affect Sperm Quality?

A new discovery found that conception may be contingent more so on women's fertility and less on the age of a man's sperm. In fact, recent research has led to the belief that age is not typically a determinant factor for sperm quality or count.

"It is sperm quality rather than male age that matters," stated Meenakshi Choudhary, Britain's Newcastle Fertility Centre at Life. "Our results suggest that, up to the age of 45, there is little effect of male age on the treatment's outcome."

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Tijuana Becomes Beacon of Hope for Infertility Patients

Mexico has long been renowned for providing affordable and state-of-the-art fertility treatments to US and IVF patients overseas. IVF Tijuana is one of the new destinations rising in the Mexico’s healthcare horizon, drawing more patients every year to its affordable fertility clinics and advanced reproductive centers.

Tijuana is also noted for its convenient and comfortable services for fertility patients. The ease and hassle-free travel services provided by Tijuanainfertility clinic allows patients be pampered by exclusive experience of being transported from San Diego to Tijuana and arriving safely back at their hotel the same day of the treatment.

Patients also have the alternative to stay in Tijuana to further explore the culture.

Find out more about exclusive benefits and services Tijuana Infertility Clinic has to offer: Tijuana Infertility Clinic Reaching Patients Across the Globe

Gay and Lesbian Parenting in a Modern World

The idea of the typical family structure has developed and changed dramatically over the last 10 years. With technological advancements in assisted reproductive medicine and surrogacy its become easier then ever for same sex couples to create a family by third party reproduction, sperm donation, and egg donation.

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Get Your Sperms Healthy!

Did you know that lifestyle and eating habits can contribute to male infertility?

The way that you eat and live can effect the potency or ability of your sperm.

It can determine your sperm count and ability to conceive a baby.

We have compiled a list of tips for wanna be daddy's:

Read the full story here: Tips for Healthy Sperm for the Would Be Daddy

IVF Tests, Sperm Donors and Surrogacy: 2012 Infertility Trends

Infertility treatments have been a safe, effective way to help couples have children for more than two decades now.

With the rising popularity of these procedures comes rapidly advancing technology, medical breakthroughs and of course, controversy.

What will the infertility community be buzzing about in the coming year?

Experts weigh in on 2012's hot infertility topics, including a new money-saving IVF test, sperm donor scarcity, and the use of surrogacy as more than just a solution for infertility.

To learn more, read the full article: Infertility in 2012: IVF Tests, Sperm Donation, and Surrogacy

DIY Sperm Donor: Too Generous for the FDA?

Any sort of organ or tissue donation is seen as a selfless, generous act with the aim to help others.

Sperm and egg donation, however, come with controversy, and the latest one involves a California man giving his sperm away for free.

The media has dubbed 36-year-old Trend Arsenault as "the DIY sperm donor", and for the past five years, he's helped infertile couples have babies...14 to be exact, and there's 4 more currently on the way.

While this may seem like a wonderful, compassionate thing for a person to do for other families, the FDA isn't happy at all. This is because Arsenault is operating this free service out of his home, and doesn't undergo recommended sperm and blood testing before each donation.

Experts believe that by choosing a private donor, you could be putting yourself and your potential child at risk. Important health and safety regulations that most sperm banks apply simply aren't present in a private, individual setting, which has caused a lot of worry within the infertility community.

Dr. Lynn Westphal, a reproductive endocrinologist at Stanford told the SF Gate, “I know people will get their friends and just use the turkey baster or whatever. Clearly that happens, but there are reasons for these FDA regulations. It’s safer to have the sperm tested.”

Arsenault is waiting to see if the FDA is going to schedule a hearing regarding his $100,000 fine or 1 year federal prison sentence for his "unauthorized" sperm donation, and he and his law team are not going down without a fight.

He told the San Francisco Gate, “What the FDA is doing infringes on reproductive rights. The government is reaching into the bedroom. There’s no precedence for my case. Whatever happens to me kind of sets the future up for all the other people in these situations – the couples plus the donors.”

Who's right? Arsenault or the FDA?

To learn more, read the full article: The DIY Sperm Donor - Hero or Criminal?

Red Headed Sperm Donors Rejected!

Cryos International isn't accepting sperm donors with red hair at this time.

While this story has created quite the media buzz, Cryos is located in Denmark, where blonde and red hair, with green and blue eyes is the norm.

The agency director Ole Schou explained that they have all the redheaded sperm donors they can handle, and instead are looking for more "diverse" men to donate sperm.

He told MSNBC, "“What we need is brown-eyed Scandinavians/Caucasians and Mediterranean donors and other ethnicities and races. The problem is that we are located in Scandinavia and ‘harvest’ donors here, but we supply to more than 65 countries all over the world. They don’t always want Scandinavian donors out there.”

Schou also said that the sperm bank is in need of Black, Asian, Hispanic, Mediterranean and mixed-race sperm donors.

Apparently, it's all about supply and demand. Currently the "ideal" sperm donor's appearance is as follows: 6 feet tall, with brown hair, blue or green eyes, and a medium complexion.

Who knows what the "perfect" sperm donor will look like next year?

To learn more, read the full article: Redheads Rejected from Donating Sperm in Denmark

150 Siblings, 1 Sperm Donor

Sperm donation has officially gotten out of control.

In the United States, there are databases full of half-brothers and sisters, who all share the same father, and anonymous sperm donor.

Numbers of kids in these donor families are from 20 to 150, and surprisingly, they keep on growing.

Parents, donors and experts are in complete shock about the number of children one sperm donor has fathered. While they were promised low numbers at the time of the donation, these high numbers of brothers and sisters raises fears of accidental incest and the spread of genetic conditions occurring.

These families are now working to change the laws in the U.S. to match sperm donor laws in Europe.

To learn more, read the full article: Sperm Donor Fathers 150 Kids-Should U.S. Laws be Changed?

Fight for Equality: Same-Sex Couples Have Families Too!

A scene from "The Kids Are Alright", a film about a lesbian couple & their 2 kids

"The Kids Are Alright" is a film about a lesbian couple and their two children, and it paints an accurate picture of same-sex couples with children in the United States.

According to the most recent US Census survey, about 25% of same-sex couples are having children. Including gay households in the survey is a huge step for the LGBT community, and it shows that same-sex couples have the same wants, needs and hopes as straight couples.

One of those includes having children, and many gay couples are choosing to conceive through sperm donation, egg donation, or surrogacy in order to have biologically-related children.

To learn more about this very important social issue, read the full article here: A Quarter of Same Sex Couples Having Families