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Walgreens Fertility Care Card
Announcing the Walgreens Fertility Care Card. This program is for patients without insurance for Fertility Meds. Once registered as a member, you will receive a $100 off every $1,000 of Fertility Meds through Walgreens Fertility Pharmacy! (Formerly Schraft's-IVPCare)
Visit: http://www.newlifeagency.com/surrogate_maternity/fertility_pharmacy_care_card.cfm
Fertility Lifelines
Fertility LifeLines™ is a free, confidential, educational resource that provides customized information and support to people with fertility health concerns. A single phone call can put you in touch with customer service representatives, benefits specialists, and fertility nurses. All calls to Fertility LifeLines™ are free and confidential. In fact, you're welcome to remain anonymous if you wish. Feel free to call us as often as you wish. And remember, there's no such thing as a dumb question.
Visit www.fertilitylifelines.com
Fertile Hope
Fertile Hope is a national, nonprofit organization dedicated to providing reproductive information, support and hope to cancer patients and survivors whose medical treatments present the risk of infertility. The organization was founded by cancer survivor Lindsay Nohr Beck as a result of her own endeavors to preserve her fertility in the face of critical cancer treatments.
Visit www.fertilehope.org
Fertility Journey
For some people the journey toward parenthood is an easy one. For others — like the nearly one in eight American couples who experience infertility problems — there are twists, turns and roadblocks along the way. We hope to support you along your journey to parenthood. Whether you're just beginning your journey and want to learn more about fertility, are already involved in fertility testing and diagnosis, or are undergoing one of the many available infertility treatment options, take the next step with fertility journey™ as your guide
Visit www.fertilityjourney.com
American Fertility Association (AFA)
The American Fertility Association (AFA) is a national, non-profit organization serving the United States through its national office in New York City, and is a leader in providing men and women, health care professionals, public officials and the media, both nationally and internationally, with information about infertility treatments, reproductive and sexual health and family building options including adoption and third-party solutions. Over 40,000 individuals are members of The AFA, and nearly 500 new members join each month, clear proof of the critical need for the education, support, advocacy and research that the AFA provides.
Visit www.theafa.org
American Society for Reproductive Medicine
ASRM is a voluntary, non-profit organization devoted to advancing knowledge and expertise in reproductive medicine, including infertility, menopause, contraception, and sexuality.
Find great Patient Fact Sheets on many different topics.
Visit www.asrm.org
March of Dimes
Learn about how to prepare your body and mind for conception. Understand how to cope with infertility.
Visit http://www.marchofdimes.com/pnhec/173_14308.asp
Resolve
RESOLVE is a non-profit organization mandated to promote reproductive health and to ensure equal access to all family building options for men and women experiencing infertility or other reproductive disorders, and to provide support services and physician referral and education.
Visit www.resolve.org
Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART)
The Fertility Center is a member of SART (Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology), an organization of professionals dedicated to the practice of assisted reproductive technologies (ART) in the United States. The mission of our organization is to set and help maintain the standards for ART in an effort to better serve our members and our patients. One of the most important functions of SART is to help patients locate and contact infertility clinics, as well as view national and individual clinic IVF success rates.
Visit www.sart.org
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
The goal of this report is to help potential ART users make informed decisions about ART by providing some of the information needed to answer the following questions:
What are my chances of having a child by using ART?
Where can I go to get this treatment?
Visit www.cdc.org/art
Conceive Magazine
Conceive magazine is published quarterly designed to provide information and support for women and their partners interested in starting or expanding a family. Download podcasts.
Visit www.conceiveonline.com
Keystone Pharmacy
Keystone is a local pharmacy that specializes in Fertility Medications. They have some medications in stock and can order others. They also now offer FREE delivery.
Visit www.keystonerx.com
Wege Institue for Mind, Body & Spirit
Traditional Chinese Medicine, mainly acupuncture and a healthy diet have been used in treating infertility for more than two thousand years in China with great efficacy.
Studies have found that acupuncture can affect the autonomic nervous system. In studies published in the Journal Fertility and Sterility in 2002, researchers from Cornel University found a clear link between acupuncture treatment and brain hormones involved in conception.
Acupuncture can reduce the symptoms and stress caused by ART medication.
Zhiqun Zhou, Oriental Medical Doctor, from the Wege Institute: Mind Body Spirit at Saint Mary’s Health Care specializes in Infertility and other Gynecological issues, since 1999.
Visit: www.wegeinstitute.org
