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• The Laurel Fertility Care Embryology Laboratory

  Anyone with questions about the embryology or andrology laboratories at Laurel Fertility Care may speak with Dr. Angle by calling our office at 415-673-9199 or by completing the Meet the Lab Director form here ». The embryology laboratory at Laurel Fertility Care reflects the current state-of-the-art technology for IVF facilities. Our IVF laboratory is located [...]

• The Cost of Fertility Treatments

  It is estimated that at least one in six couples in the United States struggle with fertility challenges. As the Executive Director for Laurel Fertility Care, located in San Francisco, California, I often am asked why healthcare in the United States is so expensive, and, specifically, why the treatment of infertility seems to be so [...]

• The Life of an Egg

  The First Day Human eggs or oocytes grow in the ovary in structures called follicles.  During an IVF cycle the growth of follicles generally tells the physician whether or not the eggs are becoming mature.  But the doctor cannot see an egg in the follicle because it is too small to be seen using ultrasound. [...]

• Now offering the FemVue Sono HSG

  FemVue Sono HSG is a safe, simple and minimally invasive procedure to determine fallopian tube status (open or blocked). FemVue Sono HSG can be completed in your gynecologist’s office and often avoids the need for a more costly radiation based fluoro hysterosalpingogram (Fluoro HSG).

• The Skinny on Minis

  Minimal stimulation IVF is also popular among patients looking for a way to avoid using high doses of stimulation medicines for a variety of reasons besides cost containment