By Brianna Abbott March 21, 2019 200 p.m. ET Grady is an 11-month-old rhesus macaque who lives at the Oregon National Primate Research Center just west of Portland. She spends her days playing and is hitting all of her normal developmental milestones. She’s also the result of a novel reproductive...
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Dr. Oktay featured in an article published by The Daily Beast and special guest on Radio Lab, discussing his groundbreaking ovarian tissue freezing and transplantation procedure performed recently.Read the full article HERE
The importance of fertility preservation arose alongside improvements in cancer treatment, permitting people to retain the ability to become parents in addition to defeating cancer itself. For transgender individuals pursuing reassignment procedures, those who wish to maintain the ability to reproduce biologically may also wish to understand their options for...
There was a time when having a child after 40 was almost unheard of. These days, however, it’s becoming increasingly common as women wait to establish their lives before heading down the road to motherhood. Also adding to these numbers is the fact that fertility issues related to illnesses, such...
If you and your partner have struggled for years to conceive a baby, you know just how frustrating and emotionally draining infertility can be. Making the decision to undergo in vitro fertilization (IVF) can give you both the hope and reassurance you need to continue trying for a baby —...
It’s no surprise that a mother’s general health influences the ease and success of her pregnancy, and physical condition can play a role even before conception. Whether you’re a woman or a man, being overweight can have a negative effect on fertility. If you’re planning to start a family, changing...
Dr. Oktay was featured in an article published by Newsday, discussing his groundbreaking ovarian tissue freezing and transplantation procedure performed recently.Read the full article HERE.
Dr. Oktay was recently featured in an article published by Daily Mail.Read the full article HERE.
To view the full post, click HERE.The following news sources reported on this study published by the New England Journal of Medicine. Click the links to read more:ABC World News Tonight (12/6, story 13, 0:25, Muir)ABC News (12/6, Childs, Yap, Francis)CBS Evening News (12/6, story 11, 1:35, Holt)NBC Nightly News (12/6, story 8, 1:50,...
Daily Mail recently published an article featuring Dr. Oktay, detailing the story of a 26-year-old cancer survivor who received an implant of her own ovaries. The ovaries were frozen 11 years ago. Read the full article HERE.
Dr. Oktay was featured in an article published by Star 2, discussing his groundbreaking ovarian tissue freezing and transplantation procedure performed recently.Read the full article HERE.
Daily Mail recently published an article featuring Dr. Oktay, discussing the importance of freezing ovaries versus eggs to protect fertility. Read the full article HERE.
The list of things that can be created with 3-D printers keeps getting longer: jewelry, art, guns, food, medical devices and, now, mouse ovaries....Read the full article HERE.
A recommended article from the New York Post.Read the full article HERE.
In an article published by Clinical Endocrinology News and featuring Dr. Okay, girls with Turner syndrome may have hope when it comes to having a baby of their own with experimental fertility preservation. Read the full article HERE.
Turner Syndrome is a common genetic condition which is encountered in 1 in 2000 individuals. In general, the partial or complete absence of one X chromosome in or all or some of the body cells can lead to a number of developmental problems one of which is very high risk...
Valhalla, NY – Women who may be at risk for losing their fertility due to cancer treatments are now able to conceive with their own frozen ovarian tissue and carry a baby to term with greater success using a newly-enhanced, robot-assisted surgical ovarian transplantation technique, according to a study released...
Huffington Post (9/28/3015)Kutluk Oktay, M.D., professor of obstetrics and gynecology, medicine, and cell biology and anatomyView Article Here
U.S. News & World Report (9/28/2015)Kutluk Oktay, M.D., professor of obstetrics and gynecology, medicine, and cell biology and anatomyView Article Here
Dr Oktay is interviewed by BBC on reversing menopause. Listen to the interview...
May 7, 2015 by Alice Park (TIME) - This newborn is the first baby in the world born using a breakthrough IVF treatment... Because the procedure is so new, some reproductive science experts are skeptical. What’s lacking, they say, is convincing evidence comparing pregnancy rates of women undergoing Augment to those...
Oct 17, 2014 by Jillian Berman, Huffington Post. - Apple and Amazon covers egg freezing, Dr. Oktay interviewed....."Most women who want elective egg freezing present themselves at not an ideal age," said Dr. Kutluk Oktay, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at New York Medical College who is a co-author...
May 20 , 2013 by: ASRM Office of Public Affairs, Published in ASRM Press Release. For the first time, in Fertility and Sterility, researchers present age-specific probabilities of live birth after IVF with frozen eggs.
Read the NY Post article on Dr. Oktay's study on egg freezing success rates and pregnancy rate estimator.... “Women will now be able to use a live-birth-rate estimator to calculate their individual chances and to make a well-informed decision about the procedure,” said Dr. Kutluk Oktay of New York Medical College, a...
Uterine fibroids can sometimes cause infertility or recurrent pregnancy loss. They may also cause bleeding problems, anemia, pain and bladder control difficulties. Clasically removal of fibroids (myomectomy) requires an open surgery. As a result women have to be hospitalized a number of days and full recovery takes weeks. A better...
Sometimes plans change after you have your tubes tied. In most instances, this can be reversed. Again the procedure can be done with an open surgery using a microscope but this may require hospital stay and longer recovery. The recovery can be shortened by using a laparoscopic or robotic surgery...
Fertility specialist Kutluk Oktay, M.D., identifies factors that diminish a woman’s ability to repair ovarian eggsVALHALLA, N.Y., February 13, 2013—A team led by a New York Medical College physician-researcher has discovered the factors that decrease female fertility as a woman ages.The findings, which were published today in the journal Science...
Sometimes IVF fails, and fails, and fails again. Before giving up on IVF with your own eggs or your partner’s sperm a thorough evaluation is needed. In a significant proportion of repeated IVF cycle failures a potential contributing cause can be identified and treated. In some cases, the treatment protocol...
While ovulation induction ensures a larger selection of eggs and embryos, the fertility medications can be costly. Some may prefer less involved treatment protocols or fewer visits to the office for cost or time savings reasons. In other cases, ovarian stimulation may not be desirable because of medical conditions. In...
Fertility Preservation (FP) is a new field in medicine developed with the purpose of helping women, men and children overcome the complications of infertility associated with chemo and radiation therapy. In addition, patients with non-cancerous conditions (such as ovarian cysts, family history of early menopause, lupus, and Turner's Syndrome, Galactosemia)...
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World’s Most Comprehensive Fertility Preservation Procedures from a Pioneer Dr. Oktay invented many new approaches to fertility preservation. We offer the most comprehensive and cutting edge techniques in fertility preservation from newborn to all ages of women in reproductive years.
Dr. Oktay’s team publishes world’s first age specific egg freezing success rates. Determine your success with our online formula.
Study published in Science Translational Medicine, covered in Science, Nature and many news outlets around the world.
Dr. Oktay discovers that women’s eggs age due to declining DNA repair, important clinical implications.
Dr Oktay speaks on Fertility Preservation on women with breast cancer, Toronto, Canada.Watch YouTube Video
This technique does not require ovarian stimulation and can be performed in children and adults with short notice. IFPI's experience is unmatched, as Dr Oktay performed the first procedures in the world and has invented many new approaches to fertility preservation.
