The Hannam Fertility Centre will be closing for the holiday season December 16th, 2011 to January 2nd, 2012 inclusive. We will reopen for consultation January 3rd, 2012 and monitoring January 5th, 2012.
Note that voicemail and email will not be checked during this time period.
Cycle Monitoring
The final date for day 1 calls to complete a 2011
Holiday Closure Notice
The Human Egg Trade
How Canada’s fertility laws are failing donors, doctors, and parents
by Alison Motluk
Illustration by Emily L. Eibel
In the spring of 2006, Heather Cox got an unexpected phone call from a Toronto fertility clinic. Three years earlier, she had donated eggs anonymously to a gay couple through the clinic. Now the same couple wanted a full
Sperm donor pool shrivels when payments cease
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On the website privatesperm.com, a 48-year-old civil engineer/songwriter/composer/music producer named Randy, who describes himself as having genius-level intelligence, offers his sperm to Canadian women who want to have children. But not through artificial insemination. “Natural method only,” he writes. On freespermdonor.com, a 53-year-old man who is disease-free and has a PhD offers his sperm
HOLIDAY CLOSURE NOTICE
Please note that our clinic will be closing for the holidays on December 19th, 2009 and will re-open on January 4th, 2010. The final day for reporting Day 1 for Cycle Monitoring will be December 1st. We will resume monitoring on January 5th. For information on IVF dates, please contact your nurse directly.
Read More...Expert panel in Ontario supports IVF funding
Dr. Hannam’s interview
Read More...CTV.ca: Couples face shortage of Canadian sperm
Why is it that Canada, a country of 12 million adult men, has only 33 sperm donors to supply its thousands of infertile couples? That’s the question being asked by some fertility doctors as many couples look elsewhere for help growing their families. Read more…
Read More...CBC News: Fertility hopes raised for cancer patients
A new fertility treatment may some day help women left infertile by cancer treatment to have children.
Researchers at the Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility at Cornell University in New York published a study of the new treatment in Tuesday’s online issue of the journal The Lancet.
In the study, a 30-year-old American woman was successfully
Dr. Tom Hannam, a fertility doctor, appears on Canada AM on Tuesday, July 8, 2008.
Male biological clock starts ticking faster at 35
A new study suggests men have a biological clock that starts ticking around the age of 35.
The French study, which involved more than 12,000 couples undergoing fertility treatments, found that miscarriage rates started to climb once men reached their mid-30s. more…
CTV.ca: Fertility doc says pregnant man case not abnormal
Fertility doc says pregnant man case not abnormal
A Canadian fertility doctor is breaking a widely sensationalized story down to science basics, saying the experience of the so-called pregnant man who reportedly gave birth to a healthy baby girl last Sunday, is just a simple medical case. more…
