http://www.hannamfertility.com Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:54:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.hannamfertility.com/holiday-closure-notice-2 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 ... http://www.hannamfertility.com/the-human-egg-trade Download Article(pdf) 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 ... http://www.hannamfertility.com/sperm-donor-pool-shrivels-when-payments-cease 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 ... http://www.hannamfertility.com/holiday-closure-notice Dr. Hannam’s interview http://www.hannamfertility.com/expert-panel-in-ontario-supports-ivf-funding 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... http://www.hannamfertility.com/ctvca-couples-face-shortage-of-canadian-sperm 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 ... http://www.hannamfertility.com/cbc-news-fertility-hopes-raised-for-cancer-patients 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... http://www.hannamfertility.com/fertility-issues-on-canada-am 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... http://www.hannamfertility.com/new-tax-laws-regarding-fertility-treatments