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In Limbo Once Again: Long COVID This Time

Posted on February 28, 2023March 11, 2023 by Pamela Tsigdinos

Limbo land looms large once again. I am well versed in limbo’s hellacious characteristics. Interminable waiting. Worry-laden uncertainty. Chronic misunderstandings. Costly and inconclusive medical care. Maddening second guessing. And the wild card? No one day remotely resembles any before or after, which makes planning impossible. Sound familiar, long-time readers and fellow graduates of Infertility School…

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Empathy: The Glue That Holds Humanity Together

Posted on March 10, 2022March 11, 2022 by Pamela Tsigdinos

There are few things harder than bearing witness to suffering, grief, or pain. When we hear someone’s sorrow in their breaking voice, our hearts clench. Our eyes well up. Empathy, the glue that holds humanity together, kicks in. Empathy causes us to ache in unison. We cast about, sometimes helplessly, to find a way to…

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IVF Survivorship: A New Field of Study

Posted on November 29, 2021December 14, 2021 by Pamela Tsigdinos

IVF survivorship as a concept didn’t exist when I first considered the medical procedure. That was in the late 1990s. All I knew came from the well-oiled IVF industry hype machine. The growing and enormously profitable business portrayed IVF as the science world’s answer to modern family formation. IVF clinics intentionally portrayed this hugely invasive…

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Fertility Clinics Draw New Scrutiny

Posted on October 1, 2018October 3, 2018 by Pamela Tsigdinos

Fertility clinics have operated with impunity for 40 years. New reporting, though, raises issues about their business motives and commitment to patient well-being. If you’d asked me 12 years ago, will the headline “Fertility Clinics Under Fire” ever run on the cover of an international women’s magazine, my answer would likely have been: What, Why?…

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Dark side of IVF comes into focus 40 years later

Posted on July 27, 2018July 27, 2018 by Pamela Tsigdinos

Editor’s Note: I researched and wrote this piece, As dark side of IVF slowly comes into focus, even more transparency is needed, to coincide with the 40th anniversary of IVF. My thanks to the editorial team at STAT, the Boston Globe Media health site for publishing it. Excerpt: I was 15 in 1978 when Louise…

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New Studies Call Out IVF Clinic Tone Deafness, Profiteering

Posted on September 12, 2017September 13, 2017 by Pamela Tsigdinos

A recent IVF study led by Yale sociology associate professor Rene Almeling stopped me in my tracks, but for reasons surely different than the research team. The IVF study goal was to “assess whether different motivations for undergoing the same medical intervention affects bodily experiences.” Published in the September Journal of Social Science and Medicine,…

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ReproTechTruths

Have a Story to Tell? #UnmaskingIVF

Posted on June 10, 2017June 12, 2017 by Pamela Tsigdinos

One story will forever mark a turning point for me. It ran June 10, 2008 so that date now has special significance. It’s the day I crossed over from a blogger writing under a pseudonym to my reveal on The New York Times homepage (yeah, I know, it still blows my mind, too). In the…

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Avalanche: A Love Story

Have Fertility Treatments Become Faustian Bargain?

Posted on August 23, 2016June 5, 2018 by Pamela Tsigdinos

Our voices on the under-reported outcomes of fertility treatments are gaining new ground on Huffington Post. Check out the latest: a book review of Avalanche: A Love Story. To truly make an impact and expose the high failure rates of fertility treatment in today’s noisy social media/internet popularity contest, your shares and traffic matter. That’s…

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Fertility Treatment Cancer Links, Rethinking IVF Funding

Posted on April 16, 2016April 16, 2016 by Pamela Tsigdinos

Fertility treatment, IVF and third-party reproduction have been in the headlines the past few weeks. Following is a recap. The reporting, I think you’ll agree, was particularly revealing and thought-provoking. As always, welcome your thoughts. Fertility Treatment and Cancer You never want to see the words fertility treatment and breast cancer in the same headline,…

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Did the Fertility Industry Underwrite Latest IVF Study?

Posted on December 31, 2015January 28, 2016 by Pamela Tsigdinos

A new IVF study caught my attention just before powering down for Christmas. As much as I wanted to coast into the holidays and give my blog a rest, I couldn’t get this headline in The New York Times out of my head: With In Vitro Fertilization, Persistence Pays Off ‘Pays off’ that’s a nice…

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