The Future of Fertility™
Thirty years ago people suffering from infertility had few treatment options — surgery
or hormonal therapy for the woman and varicocoele repair for the man. The birth
of Louise Brown, the world’s first test tube baby, marked a genuine medical
breakthrough. Initially, In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) was used only to treat
fallopian tube damage. Since then other associated technologies such as Intra-Cytoplasmic
Sperm Injection (ICSI), Embryo Cryopreservation, Assisted Hatching, Egg Donation,
Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD), Preimplantation Genetic Screening (PGS)
have contributed greatly to fertility treatment for male infertility, optimal
use of extra embryos, older patients, genetic diseases and other conditions.
These technologies collectively became known as Assisted Reproductive Technologies
or ART. Newer approaches such as Single Embryo Transfer (SET) are helping to
ensure treatment success while reducing complications such as multiple pregnancy.
ARC and its network physicians have been leaders in much of the research and
clinical progress that has helped bring The Future of Fertility™ to hundreds
of thousands of patients.
Today, The Future of Fertility™ continues to be fulfilled with the more
recent implementation of advances in reproductive technologies such as blastocyst
culture, single embryo transfer and micro-surgical sperm aspiration. These procedures
are enabling ARC’s physicians to achieve even higher live birth,rates,
lower multiple pregnancy rates and treat the most extreme cases of male infertility.
The Future of Fertility™ will see further spectacular advances especially
in the area of Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis and Screening (PGD/S), egg
freezing and in vitro maturation. Stem cell research using embryos is also ushering
in a new era in all of medicine, so that The Future of Fertility™ will help
finding cures for many untreatable diseases across the entire spectrum of health
care.
As advanced fertility diagnosis and treatment technologies continue to develop,
possibilities become realities, allowing more patients to build the family of
their dreams. Despite these technological advances, however, many who could benefit
from their application are not aware of them or feel emotionally unprepared to
embrace them. Furthermore, many patients cannot afford treatments because they
are not covered under their insurance plans.
Therefore, in addition to providing sophisticated technologies and treatments
through the largest network of reproductive medicine specialists, Advanced Reproductive
Care, Inc (ARC) teaches the public about The Future of Fertility™ through
multiple media initiatives and its physicians’ offices. Additionally and
significantly, ARC has created The ARC Fertility Program™ which also provides
innovative financial solutions to make fertility treatments and reproductive
technologies affordable and available to those who can benefit from them. ARC
is proud of its accomplishments in clinical medicine, education and financial
services that have brought The Future of Fertility™ to so many in need and
is committed to continued important contributions to The Future of Fertility™.
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