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What's New History

Added June 2009

• MMenopausal Medicine, Volume 17, Number 2 - Inside find: Primary ovarian insufficiency (AKA premature menopause); Vitamin D: The sunshine hormone How and when to treat deficiencies

• Press Release: ASRM Responds To 2009 Cloning Claims

• Press Release: ASRM Comments on NIH Stem Cell Guidelines

• Press Release: HIGHLIGHTS FROM FERTILITY AND STERILITY: ASRM’s Ethics Committee Reports on Donating Spare Embryos for Stem Cell Research; Study Shows Sperm Quality Improves and Pregnancy Rates Increase in Male Factor Patients Receiving a Hormone-Antioxidant Combined Therapy

• New CME/CE available: Luteal support in reproduction 
  Sandra A. Carson, MD, Valerie L. Baker, and MD, James H. Liu, MD
  1.0 CME/CE credit available
  Expiration date: May 5, 2010 
  Sponsored by the Association for Reproductive Medicine.
  Symposium held November 2008 at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California. Supported by an independent educational grant from Columbia Laboratories.

• Environmental Health Science Innovation Fund
  Through its Science Innovation Fund, Passport Foundation provides modest support for US-based research projects that demonstrate strong potential for significantly advancing the environmental health science needed to promulgate effective chemicals regulation, public health policies and clinical care policies/practices. Grant size: $5,000 - $50,000. Submission Deadlines: March 10, July 10, and November 10. To submit a proposal, please go to http://www.passportfoundation.org  and click on the link to the Science Innovation Fund. All applications must be submitted online. Please direct any questions to info@passportfoundation.org

• Association of Reproductive Managers (ARM) Message from the Chair

• RBPG/RLTPG Spring 2009 Newsletter

• SMRU Spring 2009 Newsletter

• The May issue of Sexuality, Reproduction and Menopause is online

• View the new SREI Brochure

• RBPG Message from the Chair and Hot Air from the Chairs

• Exhibit at ASRM 2009  

• Register for the Society of Gynecologic Surgeons 19th Annual Postgraduate Course in Advanced Gynecologic Surgery

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 11 No 27: NIH Releases Draft Guidelines on Human Stem Cell Research

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 11 No 28: ASRM Responds To 2009 Cloning Claims

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 11 No 29: CDC Posts “Interim Guidance—Pregnant Women and Swine Influenza: Considerations for Clinicians”

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 11 No 30: CDC Announces Call-In on Maternal-Child Health Issues in Connection with Swine Flu – Call Time Is 1 PM Eastern, Friday, May 1.

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 11 No 31: RED FLAG RULE IMPLEMENTATION DELAYED UNTIL AUGUST 1, 2009 

Added May 2009

• Menopausal Medicine, Volume 17, Number 1 - Inside find: The skinny on body fat and vasomotor symptoms; Menopausal symptoms and ethnicity: Lessons from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation 

• Menopausal Medicine, Volume 16, Number 4 - Inside find: Hormone therapy and venous thromboembolism in menopausal women; Historical changes in hot flash treatment options--Race/ethnicity plays a role

• Watch a video about the Diversity of the ASRM Membership

• Volunteers Needed for study on Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis  

• Highlights from Fertility and Sterility: ASRM’s Ethics Committee Reports on Donating Spare Embryos for Stem Cell Research; Study Shows Sperm Quality Improves and Pregnancy Rates Increase in Male Factor Patients Receiving a Hormone-Antioxidant Combined Therapy

• Physicians who provide care to women of reproductive age may receive questions regarding the influenza pandemic (swine flu -- an H1N1 Influenza A virus) and its effects on pregnancy. Healthcare providers may wish to visit The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) web site providing Interim Guidance for Pregnant Women and Swine Influenza: Considerations for Clinicians (http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/clinician_pregnant.htm) to learn about the current CDC recommendations regarding the care of pregnant women with serious influenza infections.

• For Physicians who Bill Patients: Red Flags Rule Guidance Material Available - FTC voted to delay implementation to August 1. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) continues to assert that it will consider physicians who regularly bill their patients (including co-payments and coinsurance) to be creditors who must develop and implement written identity theft prevention and detection programs for their practices by August 1, 2009, in order to be in compliance with the FTC’s Red Flags (Rule). The American Medical Association and many specialty and state societies strongly disagree with the FTC’s broad interpretation of the term “creditor.” Efforts continue to be made to delay the compliance deadline and to get FTC to re-publish the Rule so that medicine will have an opportunity to explain why this Rule is not applicable to physicians. In the interim, the AMA has developed guidance material to help physicians comply with the Red Flags Rule, which can be accessed on the AMA website at http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/no-index/physician-resources/red-flags-rule.shtml

• Women's Reproductive Health Research (WRHR) Career Development Program (K12)(RFA-HD-09-026) http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HD-09-026.html  This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the Office of Women's Health (ORWH). The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) is to solicit applications to continue to support a national program of mentored institutional career development programs for junior faculty who have recently completed postgraduate clinical training in obstetrics and gynecology, and are committed to an independent research career in women's reproductive health. The supervised research training will assist junior faculty in their transition into productive, physician scientists in areas related to obstetrics and gynecology and its subspecialties. The due date is July 28, 2009.

• Updated RBPG Bylaws

• RBPG/RLTPG 2008 Salary Survey Results

• Message from Fibroid Special Interest Group Chair

• Apply for CREST: Clinical Research/Reproductive Scientist Training Deadline June 1, 2009

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 11 No 18: Comments Needed: HHS Proposes to Rescind Bush Administration’s Conscience Rule

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 11 No 19: Federal Court Rules FDA Must Reconsider Plan B Decision

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 11 No 20: NICHD Posts Information on Recovery Act Funding Opportunities

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 11 No 21: Highlights From Fertility And Sterility Vol 91 No 3 and in press

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 11 No 22: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is Accepting Nominations for Appointment to Medicare Evidence Development and Coverage Advisory Committee (MEDCAC) 

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 11 No 23: REMINDER: Comments Are Due April 9 on HHS’ Proposal to Rescind the “Refusal Regulation”

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 11 No 24: NIH Releases More Information on Recovery Act Funding

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 11 No 25: NIH Public Meeting on Expansion of the Clinical Trial Registry and Results Data Bank

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 11 No 26: Red Flags Rule Guidance Material Available for Physicians

Added April 2009

• Revised Ethics Committee Report: Donating spare embryos for stem cell research

• Follow ASRM on Twitter at http://twitter.com/seantipton

• Find ASRM on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=54553197838

• Connect to ASRM on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1810170

• Revised Practice Committee Position Statement: Position statement on nurses performing focused ultrasound examinations in a gynecology/infertility setting

• Press Release: ASRM Comments on State Legislation

• Press Release: Triplet and Higher Order Multiple Births from ART Are Below Two Percent; SART 2007 Clinic Data Now On-Line

• Message from the SREI President

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 11 No 11: New SART Data Posted; Triplet and Higher Order Multiples from ART Are Below Two Percent

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 11 No 12: President's Budget for FY 2010 Prepares for Health Care Reform

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 11 No 13: Georgia’s Equal Treatment of Embryos Act: Committee Hearing Tomorrow

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 11 No 14: American Society for Reproductive Medicine Applauds Obama Stem Cell Order

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 11 No 15: Special Message from Sean Tipton, Director of the J. Benjamin Younger Office of Public Affairs, American Society for Reproductive Medicine

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 11 No 16: ART-Related Legislation in Georgia

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 11 No 17: FDA Approved First DNA Test for Two Types of Human Papillomavirus; Agency also approved second DNA test for wider range of HPV types

Added March 2009

• All ASRM Practice Guidelines are now available for viewing

• Revised: A list of Egg Donor Agencies (PDF) who have signed an agreement with SART that they do and will abide by the ASRM Ethics Committee guidelines governing payments to donors (ASRM Ethics Committee. “Financial compensation of oocyte donors” Fertil Steril 2007;88:305-9). This information is self-reported and has not been verified by either ASRM or SART

• Press Release: ASRM reacts to latest news about California Octuplets

• Press Release: ASRM Comments on Criticisms of Reproductive Health Measures in Economic Stimulus Bill

• ASRM 2009 Call for Abstracts

• ASRM 2009 Call for Videos

• Apply for the ASRM/EMD Serono 2009 New Investigator Research Grant in Reproductive Medicine. Deadline for receipt of applications extended to March 31, 2009

• CME Available online from the ASRM 2008 Annual Meeting

• Message from the EndoSIG Chair  

• Environmental Health Science Innovation Fund - Through its Science Innovation Fund, Passport Foundation provides modest support for US-based research projects that demonstrate strong potential for significantly advancing the environmental health science needed to promulgate effective chemicals regulation, public health policies and clinical care policies/practices. Environmental Health Science Innovation Fund Grant size: $5,000 - $50,000. Application Submission Deadlines: March 10, July 10, and November 10. To submit a proposal, please go to http://www.passportfoundation.org and click on the link to the Science Innovation Fund. All applications must be submitted online

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 11 No 3: Lawsuits Filed in Connecticut Today to Block HHS Providers' Conscience Rule 

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 11 No 4: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Bill Will Provide Increases in NIH and CDC Funding

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 11 No 5: United Healthcare Participating Physicians Have Until January 27 To Appeal PDP Ratings

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 11 No 6: ASRM Co-Sponsors Briefing on Polycystic Ovary Syndrome 

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 11 No 7: American Society for Reproductive Medicine Comments on California Octuplets 

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 11 No 8: Call or E-mail Your Senators to Support NIH Funding Increase in the Stimulus 

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 11 No 9: ASRM Reacts to Latest News about California Octuplets 

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 11 No 10: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and NIH

Added February 2009

• New Practice Committee Reports on Optimizing natural fertility; Use of exogenous gonadotropins in anovulatory women; Gonadotropin preparations: past, present, and future perspectives; and Obesity and reproduction

• C. Alvin Paulsen, M.D.: 1924-2008

• Read the 2008 Compendium of Practice Committee Reports

• View photos from the 2008 Annual Meeting.  You may see someone you know!

• New Ethics Committee Report: Interests, obligations, and rights of the donor in gamete donation

• Press Release: American Society for Reproductive Medicine Comments on California Octuplets  

• Press Release: Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology Comments on NEJM Study on Cumulative IVF live birth Reports

• Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics - ASRM's publication for original contributions and review articles covering human and animal data relevant to the process of in vitro fertilization and embryo replacement

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 11 No 1: ASRM Communicates Health Care Priorities to Incoming Administration and Congressional Leaders

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 11 No 2: Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology Comments on NEJM Study on Cumulative IVF live birth Reports  

Added January 2009

• New Patient Fact Sheets: Adhesions: What Are They And How Can They Be Prevented?; Dilation and Curettage (D&C); Ectopic Pregnancy; Endometriosis: Does It Cause Infertility?; Evaluation of the Uterus; Managing Pelvic Pain; and Nonhormonal Contraception  

• Dr. Luigi Mastroianni Jr., pioneer in reproductive medicine

• Highlights from Fertility and Sterility: Highlights from Fertility and Sterility - Limited Choices and Difficult Decisions for Patients with Frozen Embryos

• New reviews available at the Patient's Bookshelf

• Press Release: Highlights from Fertility and Sterility - Limited Choices and Difficult Decisions for Patients with Frozen Embryos  

• Press Release: Rebecca Sokol, MD and Nanette Santoro, MD Named as Directors of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine  

• Press Release: Dale McClure, MD, Named as President Of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine  

• Press Release: ASRM Announces Award Winners  

• New Coding Q & A  

• Buy 2008 Annual Meeting Postgraduate Course Syllabi

• Buy 2008 Annual Meeting Audio CDs from Postgraduate Courses, Plenary Sessions, and Keynote Speakers

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 10 No 25: Highlights from Fertility And Sterility: Limited Choices and Difficult Decisions for Patients with Frozen Embryos

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 10 No 26: Obama Transition Team Seeks Public Input on Health Care Reform

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 10 No 27: Health and Human Services Refusal Regulation Finalized

Added December 2008

• Highlights from Fertility and Sterility: Exposure to Cigarette Smoke Damages Eggs, Impairs Embryo Development 

• Press Release: Highlights from Fertility and Sterility: Exposure to Cigarette Smoke Damages Eggs, Impairs Embryo Development 

• Press Release: Specialized Assisted Reproductive Services are Effective for HIV-Infected Patients Who Want to Have Children, but These Services Are Not Usually Available at Smaller Clinics  

• Press Release: Female Circumcision is Detrimental to Women’s Sexual Satisfaction; New Technique for Male Circumcision Retains Sensation

• Press Release: New Insight in Female Sexuality  

• Press Release: SET and the Skeptical Patient: The Risks and Rewards of Single Embryo Transfer  

• Press Release: SART Develops Universal Informed Consent Form

• Press Release: Worlds Leading Infertility Professional Groups Join Forces on Quality of Life Instrument

• Press Release: Lycopene Good for Sperm and Eggs

• Press Release: Reproductive Impact of Weight Loss Surgery

• Press Release: Potential Impacts of Bisphenol A on Human Reproduction

• Press Release: Assisted Reproduction Triggers Complex Feelings in Patient and their Physicians

• Press Release: New Approaches to Screening Eggs and Embryos for Chromosomal Defects are More Effective and Less Invasive

• Press Release: Whole Ovary Transplant Reverses Premature Ovarian Failure and Results in Pregnancy

• Press Release: New Research Sheds Light on Issues Around Sperm Donation

• Press Release: The 64th Annual Meeting Of The ASRM: Bridge to the Future of Reproductive Medicine

• See what you missed at ASRM 2008! 
  -- Monday, November 10th  ASRM Daily News
  -- Tuesday, November 11th ASRM Daily News
  -- Wednesday, November 12th ASRM Daily News 

• 2008 ASRM Annual Meeting Abstract Supplement

• Institute of Medicine Elects 65 New Members, Five Foreign Associates

Added November 2008

• Legally Speaking (ASRM News Fall 2008 Vol 42 No 3)  
  Inside Find: California Supreme Court Unanimously Confirms Right to Treatment; New Controversy Involves India's "First Surrogate Orphan" or "Stateless Baby"; Florida Trial Court Strikes Down Florida's Ban on Gay Adoptions

• Legally Speaking (ASRM News Summer 2008 Vol 42 No 2) 
  Inside Find: California Finds Same-Sex Marriage Protected On State Constitutional Grounds, Potentially Widespread Implications; California Supreme Court Weighs MD's Refusal to Treat Lesbian in Wake of Gay Marriage Approval in that State; Indian Surrogacy Twins' Birth Certificates Create Visa Problems for Parents; Colorado Puts "Personhood" on the Ballot

• Washington Wire (ASRM News Fall 2008 Vol 42 No 3) 
  Inside Find: The Center for Medicare Services (CMS) has issued a proposed regulation which would require all physicians’ offices using imaging techniques to become Independent Diagnostic Testing Facilities (IDTFs) in order to receive payment for imaging services; The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a proposed regulation that seeks to ban what it terms discrimination against health care providers based on conscience; The Illinois Court of Appeals has determined that the Illinois Wrongful Death Act does not allow a cause of action or recovery for the loss of an untransferred, IVF created embryo

• Media Pre-registration

• Press Release: Highlights from Fertility And Sterility - Study Shows It May Be Possible to Preserve Child-Bearing Ability in Young Girls with Cancer

• Press Release: ASRM to Collaborate with Springer on Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics: Agreement with Springer to include new editor-in-chief and new design 

• Message from the Nurses Professional Group Chair

• Nurses Professional Group Fall 2008 Newsletter

• Mental Health Professional Group Fall 2008 Newsletter

• Message from the Fertility Preservation Special Interest Group Chair

• Society of Reproductive Surgeons Fall 2008 Newsletter (PDF)

• Society for Male Reproduction and Urology Fall 2008 Newsletter (PDF)

• Fall 2008 ASRM News (PDF) - available to members only

• JetBlue is offering a travel discount to ASRM 2008

• 2008 ASRM Abstract Supplement - San Francisco, CA (available to members-only)

• Electronic Abstract Supplement: The abstracts of the Scientific Oral and Poster Sessions have been published as a Supplement to Fertility and Sterility in an electronic format (abstracts on disc). Professional registrants at ASRM 2008 in San Francisco will be given a ticket at Registration when they pick up their badges to exchange for a disc during the meeting.

• Have Your Poster Made: Call4Posters allows poster authors to create and format their posters online or upload an already-created poster in PDF or PowerPoint format. ASRM has contracted with an outside vendor to provide this for-fee service. Posters are printed as a single sheet (various sizes available) and delivered directly to the annual meeting for on-site pickup, or to the author’s address (if preferred).

• New NIH Policy on Resubmission (Amended) Applications

• Society of Reproductive Surgeons Message from the President

• Mental Health Professional Group Message from the Chair  

• Sexuality, Reproduction & Menopause CE/CME available: 
  Use of Progesterone in 3 Challenging Cases 
  1.5 CE/CME credit available
  Eligible Participants: Physicians, nurse practitioners 
  Expiration date: July 31, 2009

• Message From the Fibroid SIG Chair  

• Environment & Reproduction SIG Summer 2008 Newsletter (PDF)

• Message From the Endometriosis SIG Chair - Summary of World Congress of Endometriosis 2008, Melbourne, Australia; Two Endometriosis Postgraduate Courses to be Offered at the ASRM Annual Meeting in San Francisco; NIH News 

• An interview room is available for employers to meet with job applicants at the ASRM 2008 Meeting.  Just sign up for the ASRM 2008 Career Fair at the ASRM Career Center and then reserve time in the interview room

• Visit Only In San Francisco for information on where to eat and what to do while you're in San Francisco this November!

• 2008 Exhibitor Prospectus (PDF) now online as well as Exhibitor Registration

• Audio/Visual Instructions for Presenters at the ASRM Annual Meeting Scientific Program

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 10 No 20: Labor, HHS and Most Federal Funding to Remain at 2008 Levels through March 6 

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 10 No 21: FDA Notice: Complications Associated With Transvaginal Placement Of Surgical Mesh

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 10 No 22: Tonight - ASRM President, David Adamson, MD on NBC Nightly News 

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 10 No 23: ASRM to Collaborate with Springer on Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics; Agreement with Springer to Include New Editor-in-Chief and New Design

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 10 No 24: Highlights from Fertility And Sterility: Study Shows It May Be Possible to Preserve Child-Bearing Ability in Young Girls with Cancer

Added October 2008

• National Infertility Week is October 19-25, 2008.  Visit RESOLVE and Take Charge

• Revised ASRM Patient Education Booklet: Assisted Reproductive Technologies

• New ASRM Patient Fact Sheets: Sperm Shape (Morphology): Does It Affect Fertility? (PDF); How Doctors Evaluate Infertility in Women (PDF); Gamete Donation: Deciding Whether to Tell (PDF); and Varicocele (PDF)  

• Revised ASRM Patient Fact Sheets: Sexual Dysfunction (PDF) and Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (PDF)  

• RBPG/RLTPG Fall 2008 Newsletter (PDF)  

• NIH Announcement: Financial Conflict of Interest Requirements for NIH Research Funding

• Read the Summer Issue of ASRM News ASRM News is available to members-only

• CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion is seeking a proven senior scientific leader to serve as Director of the Division of Reproductive Health  

• An RFA for Pelvic Floor Disorders has been issued. http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HD-08-008.html 
  This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the Office of Women’s Health (ORWH), solicits applications from institutions/organizations that propose to enhance collaborative research among basic scientists and clinician researchers in female pelvic floor disorders.  The purpose of the FOA is to attract more basic scientists into the field of female pelvic floor disorders, to establish relationships between clinicians and basic scientists, and to promote research that has the greatest clinical applicability for addressing unknown aspects of physiology and pathophysiology of pelvic function. The due date is October 31, 2008

• Online Registration for ASRM 2008!

• Preliminary Program Now Available for ASRM 2008  

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 10 No 15:  ACTION ALERT: Help Stop Proposed Regulations Which Would Restrict the Use of Ultrasound 

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 10 No 16: National Toxicology Program Releases Report on Potential Human Reproductive and Developmental Effects of Bisphenol-A 

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 10 No 17: Science Debate 2008: The Candidates Answer the Top 14 Science Questions Facing the United States 

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 10 No 18: Illinois Court of Appeals Determines One Cannot Sue for Wrongful Death of an Untransferred IVF Embryo

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 10 No 19: NIH Director Elias Zerhouni Announces Plans to Resign at the End of October 

Added September 2008

• Menopausal Medicine: August 2008, Volume 16, Number 3 (PDF, 715K file) Inside find: The Metabolic Syndrome: Impact on women and considerations for treatment; Is the risk of depression greater during menopause? 

• Joint ASRM/ACOG Practice Guideline: Age-Related Fertility Decline published August 2008 

• Press Release: ASRM Comments on British Study Comparing Ovulation Drugs, Artificial Insemination, and Expectant Management in Treatment of Unexplained Infertility - Study to appear in the British Medical Journal

• Press Release: Bridge to the Future of Reproductive Medicine: The American Society for Reproductive Medicine’s 64th Annual Meeting November 8-12, 2008 in San Francisco, California

• The August 20008 issue of Sexuality, Reproduction and Menopause is online 

• Attend the SGS 18th Annual Postgraduate Course in Advanced Gynecologic Surgery  

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 10 No 12:  NIH Funding Legislation Working Its Way Through The Senate -- Call Your Senators To Support It

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 10 No 13:  American Society for Reproductive Medicine Comments on British Study Comparing Ovulation Drugs, Artificial Insemination, and Expectant Management in Treatment of Unexplained Infertility

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 10 No 14:  HHS Proposes New Regulations With Strong Potential Impact for Reproductive Medicine

Added August 2008

• Highlights from Fertility and Sterility: Ten Years Of Experience Shows IVF With ICSI Is Safe And Effective For HIV-Positive Men And Their Partners; DNA From Herpes Family Viruses Frequently Found In Sperm And Seminal Fluid Of Asymptomatic Men; Education, Income Levels, Insurance Affect IVF Availability And Use In The United States from June 2008, Volume 89 Number 6

• New Reviews on the Patient's Bookshelf

• New Washington Wire article from Spring 2008 ASRM News

• New Legally Speaking article from the Spring 2008 ASRM News

• Press Release: Highlights in Fertility and Sterility: June 2008 Volume 89 No 6

• New SRS Spring/Summer 2008 Newsletter (PDF)

• New SRS Message from the President

• New Coding Q & A

• NIH Announcements: Active Funding Opportunity Announcements  

• The Sexuality Special Interest Group has added Useful Website links and resources

• News from NICHD (from the Spring 2008 ASRM News)

• MHPG Spring 2008 Newsletter

• New MHPG Book review

• Spring/Summer 2008 SMRU Newsletter

• Instructions for Poster Presentations  

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 10 No 11:  Medicare Physicians' Pay Cuts Averted; Congress Overrides Bush Veto

Added July 2008

• Revised ASRM Practice Committee Opinion: Definitions of infertility and recurrent pregnancy loss

• Revised: A list of Egg Donor Agencies (PDF) who have signed an agreement with SART that they do and will abide by the ASRM Ethics Committee guidelines governing payments to donors (ASRM Ethics Committee. “Financial compensation of oocyte donors” Fertil Steril 2007;88:305-9). This information is self-reported and has not been verified by either ASRM or SART.

• Read the Spring Issue of ASRM News ASRM News is available to members-only.

• Represent Reproductive Medicine to the AMA: “Young Physician” needed 

• CDC Hears from Endocrine Society Experts on Tests to Measure Steroid Hormones  

• The U.S. Public Health Service 2008 Clinical Practice Guideline Update: Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence was released at an event hosted by the American Medical Association (AMA) at its Chicago headquarters.  The link to order Guidelines and related materials is http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/tobacco/order.htm  

• New NIH Announcements  

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 10 No 8:  Senate Passes Genetic Non-Discrimination Act; House Is Expected To Approve And President Is Expected To Sign

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 10 No 8a:  Award Opportunity: Nominate a Colleague or Yourself for the Eugene Garfield Economic Impact of Medical and Health Research Award 

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 10 No 9:  California Department of Public Health Posts Updated Information on Treating Research Egg Donors 

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 10 No 10:  Action Alert - Call Your Senators Now To Stop Medicare Physician Payment Cuts; Ask Them To Vote “Yes” On The Cloture Motion To Consider S.3101

Added June 2008

• New ASRM Patient Education Fact Sheet: Conceiving After Tubal Surgery (PDF)  

• New ASRM Patient Education Fact Sheet: Ovarian Drilling for Infertility (PDF)  

• New ASRM Patient Education Fact Sheet: Minimally Invasive Surgery (PDF)  

• New ASRM Patient Education Fact Sheet: Fertility Drugs and the Risks of Multiple Births (PDF)  

• New ASRM Patient Education Fact Sheet: Endometriosis and Infertility: Can Surgery Help? (PDF)  

• New ASRM Patient Education Fact Sheet: Complications and Problems Associated with Multiple Births  

• Revised Patient Education Fact Sheet: Stress and Infertility (PDF)  

• Revised Patient Education Fact Sheet: Diagnostic Testing for Male Factor Infertility (PDF)  

• Revised Patient Education Fact Sheet: Endometrial Ablation (PDF)   

• Revised Patient Education Fact Sheet:  Hydrosalpinx (PDF)  

• May 2008 issue of Menopausal Medicine

• Read the May 2008 issue of Sexuality, Reproduction and Menopause

• New Practice Guideline: Progesterone supplementation during the luteal phase and in early pregnancy in the treatment of infertility: an educational bulletin (PDF). Practice guidelines are only available to ASRM members

• New Practice Guideline: Guidelines for development of an emergency plan for in vitro fertilization programs (PDF). Practice guidelines are only available to ASRM members

• Participate in the 2008 AUA Foundation Webinars on a variety of male reproduction and infertility topics

• The Fibroid Special Interest Group has been organized 

• New Featured Articles on the Sexuality Special Interest Group pages 

• Have you been selected to participate in the AMA Physician Practice Information survey?  

• Attend the SGS 18th Annual Postgraduate Course in Advanced Gynecologic Surgery

• Apply for CREST: Clinical Research/Reproductive Scientist Training Deadline July 1, 2008.  2007 CREST Scholars Announced - Congratulations! to Mira G. Aubuchon, M.D.; Melinda B. Henne, M.D.; and G. Wright Bates, Jr., M.D.

Added May 2008

• Read the revised ASRM Mission Statement  

• New reviews on the Patient's Bookshelf

• News from NICHD (from the Winter 2008 ASRM News)

• New Legally Speaking column on current legal issues from ASRM News

• New Washington Wire column on legislation from ASRM News

• See who's on the ASRM Board of Directors  

• New Coding Q & A

• SMRU Message from the President

• 2008 ARM SouthEast Regional Meeting

• Contraception Special Interest Group: Message from the Chair

• Women's Council Mentoring Program

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 10 No 6: “FRONTIERS IN HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS,” NIH-Sponsored Advanced Training Course to be Held at Woods Hole, May 30 through June 6, 2008 

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 10 No 7:  ASRM Congratulates Robert Wah, MD on Being Named One of the "50 Most Powerful Physician Executives in Healthcare" by Modern Physician Online

Added April 2008

• Menopausal Medicine: March 2008, Volume 16, Number 1 
  Inside find: Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators: From bench, to bedside, and back again; SERMs in practice: an idea whose time has come; Tissue selective estrogen complex: a new paradigm

• March 2008 Issue of Sexuality, Reproduction and Menopause is available online

• Press Release: More than 50,000 Babies Born as a Result of ART in 2006; Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology Releases 2006 Clinic Outcome Reports

• Press Release: American Society for Reproductive Medicine Comments on Latest WHI Study

• ASRM News: Winter 2008, Volume 41, No. 4  

• Women's Council Bylaws updated

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 10 No 4:  American Society for Reproductive Medicine Comments on Latest WHI Study 

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 10 No 5:  Action Needed Now! - Contact Your Senators, Urge Increased NIH Funding 

Added March 2008

• Revised: A list of Egg Donor Agencies (PDF) who have signed an agreement with SART that they do and will abide by the ASRM Ethics Committee guidelines governing payments to donors (ASRM Ethics Committee. “Financial compensation of oocyte donors” Fertil Steril 2007;88:305-9). This information is self-reported and has not been verified by either ASRM or SART. 

• ASRM Patient Booklet: Endometriosis (PDF)  

• Selected article from Fertility and Sterility: Proceedings of the Summit on Environmental Challenges to Reproductive Health and Fertility: executive summary from Fertil Steril 2008;89:281-300

• Read the amended ASRM Bylaws - available to ASRM members only

• Read the Winter 2008 Mental Health Professionals Group Newsletter

• Attention: Southern California IVF Centers - Participate in the Influence of Environmental Air Quality on Embryo Development and IVF live birth Survey  

• Watch your mail for Physician Practice Information survey. The AMA and more than 70 other organizations are conducting a comprehensive multi-specialty survey of America’s physician practices. The results will be used to positively influence national decision makers to ensure accurate and fair representation for all physicians and patients, and to articulate the challenges of running a practice that provides expert patient care, while operating a business that is sustainable. Of particular importance is the section of the study pertaining to practice expenses and the amounts that are attributable to you. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has indicated it will use the results of this study to help determine physician payment. The survey firm, Dmrkynetec, will contact randomly selected physicians and practice managers to collect responses. Please encourage your staff to make this information available, as the survey’s live birth depends on accurate and complete data. All responses will remain confidential.

• New Practice Committee Position Statement: New Guidelines from the American Heart Association Regarding Antibiotic Prophylaxis to Prevent Infective Endocarditis Associated with Genitourinary Procedures published February 2008. Practice Committee Guidelines are accessible to ASRM members only. 

• New Practice Committee Position Statement: Indications for Fragile X Mental Retardation-1 (FMR-1) Genetic Testing published February 2008. Practice Committee Guidelines are accessible to ASRM members only.

• View the 2008 Call for Abstracts (PDF) and the 2008 Call for Videos (PDF)

• The Environment and Reproduction Special Interest Group will now have a $10 membership fee

• Revised Practice Guideline: Hormonal Contraception: Recent Advances and Controversies revised January 2008. Practice Committee Guidelines are accessible to ASRM members only. 

• Institutional Award Program Unifying Population and Laboratory Based Sciences: Support for U.S. and Canadian Institutions. Letter of Intent Deadline for 2009 Awards: March 3, 2008

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 10 No 3:  President’s Budget For Fiscal Year 2009 Released; Many Cuts, A Few Increases For Health-Related Programs  

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