Press Releases and Bulletins
Press Releases and Bulletins
Feb 25, 2020
NIH has requested public input on a framework for the 2021-2025 NIH-Wide Strategic Plan, which will build on the earlier NIH-Wide Strategic Plan to guide NIH’s research efforts over the next five years. We encourage members to submit comments, which are due March 25, on the RFI submission site, and ask that you bring to ASRM’s timely attention any matters you deem of critical importance for our awareness as we prepare our own comments.
Press Releases and Bulletins
Feb 20, 2020
Patients, including prospective oocyte and sperm donors, as well as gestational carriers, who meet the diagnostic criteria for COVID-19 infection should avoid becoming pregnant. If they are undergoing active infertility treatment, we suggest that these patients consider freezing all oocytes or embryos and avoiding an embryo transfer until they are disease-free.
Press Releases and Bulletins
Feb 17, 2020
The FDA continues to work closely with CDC and other federal and international agencies to monitor the evolving outbreak of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) that was first identified in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.
Press Releases and Bulletins
Feb 05, 2020
Washington, DC – The American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) the global leader in multidisciplinary reproductive medicine research, ethical practice, and education, announced today it was joining with other leading organizations in the Reproductive Genetics Technology Consortium.
Press Releases and Bulletins
Jan 24, 2020
ASRM has joined several leading national medical and public health organizations including AMA and ACOG, on an amicus brief in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in the case of Reproductive Health Serices of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Regional, et al. V. Governor Michael L. Parson, et al.
Press Releases and Bulletins
Jan 14, 2020
“We applaud the WNBA for providing comprehensive family building benefits to their veteran players. Like all employees, female athletes deserve the opportunity to build their families, and to have access to whatever services they may need to assist them as they do it.
Press Releases and Bulletins
Jan 13, 2020
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed a fertility preservation mandate (S2133) into law today as part of a legislative package fighting New Jersey’s maternal and infant health crisis. This makes New Jersey the ninth state to pass a fertility preservation statute. This bill was intended to strengthen the 2017 update to New Jersey’s IVF mandate. The new law applies to health insurance policies and contracts that are delivered, renewed, extended, or modified in the state by any hospital service corporation, medical service corporation, health service corporation, health maintenance organization, or group health insurance policy with more than 50 people, as well as state and school employee’s health benefits commission.
Press Releases and Bulletins
Dec 20, 2019
ASRM supports the increased funding for NIH included in the FY20 spending package and applauds Congress and the President for enacting this important investment in patients, families, and researchers.
Press Releases and Bulletins
Dec 04, 2019
ASRM, as part of a group of 14 leading national medical and public health organizations including AMA and ACOG, filed an amicus brief this week in the Supreme Court of the United States in the case June Medical Services, LLC v. Gee urging the Court to uphold their ruling in Whole Women’s Health v. Hellerstedt.
Press Releases and Bulletins
Nov 22, 2019
Results from a Danish nationwide cohort study suggest that consistent dietary vitamin D supplementation significantly increases the chances a woman diagnosed with infertility will have a live birth.
