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.
Press Releases and Bulletins Nov 21, 2019
ASRM is pleased to announce that its flagship journal, Fertility and Sterility, will soon be joined by three sister publications: F&S Reports, F&S Science, and F&S Reviews.
Press Releases and Bulletins Nov 08, 2019
This week, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York struck down a Trump administration rule that would have allowed health care workers- ranging from physicians and nurses to receptionists and EMTs- to deny patient care if it conflicted with their personal religious or moral beliefs and would have allowed them to withhold referral to another provider with no such objections.
Press Releases and Bulletins Oct 16, 2019
Philadelphia, PA – Research presented at the 75th Scientific Congress and Expo of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine reveals interesting patterns about how women use contraception now, and what their preferences might be moving forward.
Press Releases and Bulletins Oct 16, 2019
Philadelphia, PA—Today, at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine’s 77th Scientific Congress and Expo, US and Egyptian researchers presented a prospective cohort study showing for the first time that letrozole, an aromatase inhibitor, is as effective as methotrexate as a medical treatment to end ectopic pregnancy.
Press Releases and Bulletins Oct 16, 2019
Philadelphia, PA - Offering prospective parents of Ashkenazi Jewish background an expanded panel of carrier screening for genetic disorders could help decrease even further the transmission of certain autosomal recessive conditions to children.