Every year thousands of families are created with the assistance of in-vitro fertilization. Many of those newborns are twins. While some may see this as a [...]

Endometriosis was a puzzling disease when first described by pathologist Rokitansky in 1860. Though we now have a clearer understanding of [...]

UPDATE: This study is currently on hold while we attend to some administrative details. Please check back to this blog often, as we will keep our readers updated.  [...]

Stillbirth, loss of a baby at delivery, is a painful challenge.  The suffering associated with the loss of a child, even before birth, can be overwhelming.  Especially acute for women [...]

By the end of the year we will have started a new and very exciting research project in our lab. We have partnered with a company called Incept Biosystems (www.inceptbio.com) [...]

Many populations of the world have specific genetic conditions that are prevalent within their ethnic group. Consequently, numerous medical organizations have recommended that genetic screening for these conditions should be [...]

Assisted reproductive technology (ART) has been a part of modern medicine now for over 30 years and in the US alone over 132,000 IVF cycles were performed in 2007. All [...]

In the press today we see that the “world’s oldest new mom dies” at age 69 (see our earlier blog post clarifying that PFC did not treat this patient), three [...]

News broke earlier today about the death of a 69 year old mother who had undergone fertility treatment at age 66. She gave birth to twins in December 2006.
This is [...]

At Pacific Fertility Center, we consider very carefully the number of embryos we transfer to each patient. Our goal is to create a healthy singleton pregnancy. We do our best [...]