Editorial by Dr. Sherman J. Silber, M.D. IVF NEWS.Direct!, April/June 2011 Dr. Sherman J. Silber, a pioneer in microsurgery and infertility, is considered a leading authority on IVF, sperm retrieval, ICSI, vasectomy reversal, tubal ligation reversal, egg and embryo freezing, testicle and ovary freezing and transplantation, and the reproductive biological clock. He performed the world’s first […]
By Stephen AdamsThe London Daily Telegraph Sunday Magazine, July 4, 2012 A technique to remove pieces of ovary, store it for decades and then replace it with delicate surgery could effectively put a woman’s menopause ‘on ice’, doctors said. The only thing preventing them from having babies into their old age would be their physical […]
High Doses of Hormones Faulted in Fertility Care By Jacqueline Mroz The New York Times, July 16, 2012 Two days after Debra Demidon underwent in vitro fertilization, she gained more than 30 pounds in fluid and suddenly was struggling to breathe. Doctors diagnosed severe ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS), a complication seen in some women who […]
An end to male sterility? IVF News, Volume 6, No. 2, 1995 There are very few sterile men who cannot now father their own children, according to Dr. Sherman Silber and his partner colleagues at the Free University of Brussels. In a dramatic presentation to the World IVF Congress (held in Vienna in May) Dr. […]
Some explorers are born, some are made. Dr. Sherman Silber falls into the latter category. He was a self-described “big-city bookworm” at 25 when he went to do work in the public health service in Alaska. That job was the start of a lifelong fascination with aboriginal people and with what happens when modern and […]
Bearing Dreams: How one doctor turned St. Louis into the infertility treatment capital of the world. St. Louis Commerce Magazine, November 2004 by Sue Britt Dr. Sherman Silber says he knew he would be a doctor when he was 5 or 6 — because his parents told him so. Since then, it has been a […]
by Matias Loewy Newsweek En Espanol, December 7, 2012 According with a new provocative theory the giant reptiles were extinguished because (and for no other reason than) they were left without females to mate. About 65 million years ago, the dinosaurs, which had dominated the earth for a period of 70 times longer than the […]
by Patricia Corrigan Jewish Light, September 2010 An internationally renowned infertility specialist, Dr. Sherman Silber invented most of the modern infertility treatments — including vasectomy reversal and tubal ligation reversal — and he developed microsurgical sperm retrieval for men who were thought to have no sperm. He also has improved dramatically the success rate for […]
by Tom O’Neal KTVI Channel 2 St. Louis, July 15, 2010 On May 27th, Amy and Jason Tucker of Columbia, Illinois became the proud parents of a new baby boy [watch news video]. Grant Patrick Tucker weighed in at 6-pounds, 13-ounces. A new baby is not that unusual, but Grant’s story is a bit different. […]
by Dr. Sherman Silber St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June 30, 2010 It’s widely known that as women age, their chances of becoming pregnant decrease. Women older than 38, in particular, often have fewer and lower quality eggs and don’t respond as well as younger women to conventional efforts to produce eggs for in vitro fertilization — […]
S.J. Silber1,4, M. DeRosa1, J. Pineda1, K. Lenahan1, D. Grenia1, K. Gorman2 and R.G. Gosden3 1Infertility Center of St. Louis, 224 South Woods Mill Road St. Louis, 63017 MO, USA; 2Paternity Testing Corporation, 300 Portland Street Columbia, 65201 MO, USA; 3Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, 1305 York Avenue, […]
SECOND CHANCE New Way to Extend Fertility: Freeze Tissue From Ovaries By Sylvia Pagán Westphal Wall Street Journal Online, April 27, 2007 Surgery Could Expand Choices for Women, But Ethics Are Debated Stored at subzero temperatures in a laboratory at St. Luke’s Hospital in St. Louis are eight tiny strips of tissue that were once […]
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