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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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Comprenez-Vous? Oui. We Understand Each Other

Posted on December 9, 2015April 16, 2020 by Pamela Tsigdinos

Understand me? That’s a lot to ask. Misunderstandings, loaded labels and dark suspicions are rampant. Society today is remarkably chaotic on so many levels. It seems we could all benefit if we took a step back, tried to understand and recalled some of what we share in common. First, let’s look at the universality of…

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Fertility Industry’s Troubling History of Omission, Growth Over Health, Safety

Posted on October 23, 2015October 23, 2015 by Pamela Tsigdinos

In a powerful new essay, Questioning the Cult of Repro Tech, health advocate and author Miriam Zoll reveals little publicized details behind today’s now seemingly ubiquitous fertility procedure: in vitro fertilization (IVF).  Her research and writing make for a compelling read.  Zoll raises important questions about bioethics and the way fertility medicine is marketed and…

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Fertility Industry Conning Patients?

Posted on September 8, 2015September 26, 2016 by Pamela Tsigdinos

Doctor, con and IVF are not words you want to see in the same sentence. Yet that’s what you’ll find in this strongly worded piece written by Professor Robert Winston, author of a new guide on fertility.  Winston’s scathing analysis of his brethren and the fertility industry that has grown up around treatments is all…

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When Does the Pursuit of Pregnancy Go Too Far?

Posted on January 17, 2015February 4, 2017 by Pamela Tsigdinos

  Now 10 years outside of my pursuit of pregnancy and all the related dreams I once held dear, I find myself preoccupied by the complex questions and issues that continue to swirl around the ‘fertility’ industry and those swept up in it. I sat down last month to research and write a longer piece…

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Not Brought To You By Big Pharma Or Profit-Driven Fertility Clinics

Posted on December 5, 2014April 27, 2018 by Pamela Tsigdinos

In a Telegraph newspaper column, It’s adults, not teens, who need a sex talk, UK journalist Bryony Gordon describes a friend who runs a fertility clinic in central London who is: …slack-jawed with amazement at all the highly educated, highly paid, highly functioning couples who pass through her doors every day with only the most…

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WIRED Reframes Egg Freezing Debate

Posted on October 25, 2014April 5, 2016 by Pamela Tsigdinos

Egg freezing inadvertently gave birth to a much bigger set of conversations. It began when the business and technology press turned its sights on the topic prompted by news from Apple and Facebook. Until just recently,  any reproductive medicine coverage had been relegated to health, bioethics and women’s media outlets. The move to a much…

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Worlds Collide (In a Good Way)

Posted on October 23, 2014November 19, 2014 by Pamela Tsigdinos

  There are pros and cons to having two personas. For my entire career in the auto and tech worlds my business cards and email signatures have read Pamela Mahoney. I’m rather attached to my given name and, let’s face it, it’s a lot less intimidating to spell or pronounce than my married name Pamela…

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When Did Normal Aging Become an Infertility Condition?

Posted on October 4, 2014August 16, 2019 by Pamela Tsigdinos

Come again? Did I read that wrong? Hasn’t aging always been synonymous with losing fertility? Menopause, anyone? Seems odd to call out normal aging as though it’s a disease or a condition that needs to be treated with procedures. In fact, the bigger question is why are women waiting until the age of menopause to…

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