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What's New History

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 Success 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 success 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  

Added February 2008

• Patient Fact Sheet: Risks of In Vitro Fertilization (IVF)

• Updated ASRM Officers, Directors and Committees 2007-2008 - available to ASRM members only

• View photos from ASRM 2007. You may see someone you know!

• Apply for the ASRM/EMD Serono 2008 Research Grants in Reproductive Medicine. Deadline for receipt of applications: March 1, 2008

• Revised Practice Guideline: The menopausal transition revised January 2008. Practice Committee Guidelines are accessible to ASRM members only.

• Revised Practice Guideline: Estrogen and progestogen therapy in postmenopausal women revised January 2008. Practice Committee Guidelines are accessible to ASRM members only. 

• The NIH is currently seeking input from the scientific community, health professionals, patient advocates, and industry related to future research priorities in the genetically related disorders of Fragile X syndrome, Fragile X Tremor Ataxia Syndrome, Premature Ovarian Failure and other relevant conditions associated with FMR1 gene function. Please visit the link below for a full description of the Request for Information (RFI). http://grants2.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-HD-08-003.html

• NIH has increased the incentives for scientists to serve as chartered or permanent members of its peer review groups. These researchers will now have more flexibility in submitting their own grant applications. An NIH Guide Notice published last week announced that these reviewers now will have the option to submit R01, R21 or R34 applications at any time. According to the NIH Center for Scientific Review, "This new policy was developed to better compensate chartered reviewers, who can be disadvantaged by deadlines that force them to develop their own applications while reviewing those submitted to NIH by others." http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-08-026.html

• Centers for Disease Control (CDC) 2008 Potential Extramural Projects

• Need CME?  Watch Symposia from ASRM 2007

• NIH Announcement: Epigenetic Announcements with quick turn around - Due 2/15/2008  

• AMA Conducting Physician Practice Information Survey

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 10 No 1:  FDA Sends Warning Letters to Pharmacies; Claims about “Bio-Identical HRT” Are False and Misleading

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 10 No 2:  NIH to Sponsor Human Embryonic Stem Cell Culture Training Course March 4-13 in Orange, California 

Added January 2008

• Practice Guideline: Essential elements of informed consent for elective oocyte cryopreservation: a Practice Committee opinion

• Practice Guideline: Preimplantation genetic testing: a Practice Committee opinion  

• MHPG 2007 Annual Report (PDF)  

• MHPG Message from the Chair  

• RBPG Message from the Chair and Minutes from their October meeting and 2007 Annual Report  

• World Endometriosis Research Foundation funds international multi-centre study to develop a tool to identify women with endometriosis (PDF)  

• 2007-08 MHPG Officer Organizational Chart (PDF)  

• New SRS Literature Reviews in Hysteroscopy  

• CME is available from the North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology: 
  HPV Vaccines: Who, What, When, Where, Why
  "Vaccines for Cervical Cancer Prevention: The Reality and the Issues" presented by Stanley L. Block, M.D., FAAP, University of Kentucky College of Medicine and University of Louisville, School of Medicine.
  "Natural History of HPV Infections and Rationale Behind the Vaccines" presented by S. Paige Hertweck, M.D., University of Louisville.

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 9 No 25: Think Tank Releases Paper on ART and the Law

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 9 No 26:  2008 Budget and Medicare Bills Pass Congress, Averting Physician Cuts and Providing Small Increases for Healthcare and Research; President is Expected to Sign

Added December 2007

• New Book Review: Patient's Bookshelf  

• New Washington Wire columns from the ASRM News 

• New Legally Speaking columns from ASRM News

• Revised Patient Fact Sheet: Hyperprolactinemia (Prolactin Excess) (PDF)  

• Menopausal Medicine: November 2007, Volume 15, Number 2 (PDF)
  Inside find: Determining the optimal duration of postmenopausal hormone therapy; What is a perimenopausal woman to do?

• New Coding Q & A on Insurance Denial of CPT Code 58660 lysis of adhesions

• RBPG Message from the Secretary  

• NIH Loan Repayment Awards Available For Biomedical And Behavioral Researchers  

• Draft of Pain Scoring in Endometriosis document by EndoSIG
  Please return any comments by December 1st 

• EndoSIG Message from the Chair  

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 9 No 17: Action Needed On Medicare Physician Payment - Call Your Senator

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 9 No 18: Extracurricular Activities for ASRM Members:  Writers, Reviewers and Advisors needed

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 9 No 19: Blue Cross And Blue Shield Parties’ Settlement Fund Will Pay Out More Than $131 Million; Deadline For Filing Is October 19

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 9 No 20: NIH Loan Repayment Awards Available For Biomedical And Behavioral Researchers

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 9 No 21: Egg Donation Threatened by Senate Amendment: Call Your Senator Now to Urge Vote Against Amendment 3389 from Senator DeMint

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 9 No 22: Egg Donor Compensation No Longer Threatened; Amendment Dropped from Labor-H Funding Bill

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 9 No 23: Call on Your Representative Today - NIH Funding Levels Are at Risk! The House is Expected to Vote Tomorrow on Override of Presidential Veto

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 9 No 24: House Override of Labor Appropriations Veto Falls Two Votes Short; More to Come after Thanksgiving Recess

Added November 2007

• 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.

• View the ASRM 2007 Meeting Video 

• Annual Meeting Highlights (press releases) can be found here!  

• David Adamson, MD Becomes President Of The American Society For Reproductive Medicine 

• ASRM Issues New Report on Preimplantation Genetic Testing  

• ASRM Urges Caution, Strong Counseling for Women Seeking Egg Freezing

• Infertility Centers Unevenly Distributed In the United States  

• The Cost Effectiveness of IVF

• Gamete Donation – Donors and Offspring  

• Advising Cancer Patients to Preserve their Fertility  

• Clinical Trial Shows that Going to IVF after Fewer Artificial Insemination Cycles Results in a Shorter Average Time to Pregnancy  

• Egg Freezing and Ovarian Tissue Cryopreservation are Safe for Offspring and Offer Advantages for Patients  

• Influences on Male Reproductive Function  

• Effects of Infection on Sperm  

• Do Older Women Need More Embryos?  

• Menopausal Symptoms and Treatment Effects  

• NIH Announces New BIRCWH Awards to Promote Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health  

• News from NICHD (from the Fall 2007 ASRM News) 

• NIH Announcement - Interdisciplinary Research on Implantation (R01) requests to stimulate interdisciplinary approaches to study the mechanisms of blastocyst implantation, with an emphasis on immunological approaches. http://www.nichd.nih.gov/funding/foa/foa.cfm?select_doctype=PA%2FPAR#  

• NIH Announcement - Fragile X Pre-mutation and Ovarian Function (R01) solicits Research Project Grant (R01) applications from institutions/organizations that propose basic, clinical or translational research on the effects of the Fragile X pre-mutation on ovarian function, with a focus on premature ovarian failure or early menopause, in women and/or animal models. http://www.nichd.nih.gov/funding/foa/foa.cfm?select_doctype=PA%2FPAR#  

• NIH Announcement - Multiple Loan Repayment Options http://www.lrp.nih.gov/ The CIR-LRP provides for the repayment of up to $35,000 of the principal and interest of the extant educational loans of health professionals conducting contraception and/or infertility research for domestic non-profit or government entities for each year of obligated service. 

• NIH Announcement - Americas Fellowship in Reproductive Sciences (F05): provides a unique opportunity to qualified Latin American reproductive scientists, at junior or mid-career level, to receive up to three years of research training in the United States (U.S.) or Canada. http://www.nichd.nih.gov/funding/foa/foa.cfm?select_doctype=PA%2FPAR#  

• 2007 Prize Paper Winners  

• See the ASRM 2008 First Announcement  

• ASRM News Fall 2007 Issue  

• SMRU Fall 2007 Newsletter (PDF) 

• SRS Fall 2007 Newsletter (PDF)

Added October 2007

• Assisted reproductive technologies (ART) in Canada: 2003 results from the Canadian ART Register (PDF) from Fertil Steril 2007;88:550-9. 

• The ASRM Web Site was mentioned in Medicine on the Net  

• Washington, D.C. restaurants are as unique and exciting as the city itself! To help Annual Meeting attendees take advantage of this opportunity, ASRM has arranged for Convention Concierge, Inc. to help you find the right place to experience the best of what Washington, D.C. has to offer. Big groups or small groups can make a restaurant reservation through Convention Concierge, Inc. and have a wonderful dining adventure. For more information, please call 703-933-9012 or 703-933-9013, or email Janice-cci-ddc@msn.com.

• Wondering which Washington, D.C. Airport is closest to ASRM 2007? Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (Airport code DCA) is the closest to the Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. To take you to and from the airport there are taxis or you can take the Metro Yellow line which goes straight to the Convention Center. Other airports that are not quite as close are Washington Dulles International Airport (Airport code IAD) or Baltimore/Washington International Airport (Airport code BWI).

• 2007 ASRM Abstract Supplement - Washington D.C.
  Once you reach the F&S page, click the link under the picture of the Editor (on the right) to access the full text of the abstracts. 

• Special registration just for Exhibitors  

• Apply for the ASRM/Ortho Women's Health Research Grant. Deadline for receipt of applications: October 30, 2007. 

• Call4Posters Poster Creation Service
  Call4Posters allows authors whose abstracts are accepted for poster presentation to create and format their posters online or upload an already-created poster in PDF or PowerPoint format. ASRM has contracted with Marathon Multimedia to provide this for-fee service, in which posters are printed as a single sheet and delivered directly to the annual meeting for on-site pickup, or to the author’s address (if preferred).

• 2007 Preliminary Program for the ASRM Annual Meeting is available

Added September 2007

• New Legally Speaking columns from ASRM News  

• New Reviews at the Patient's Bookshelf

• New Washington Wire columns from the ASRM News

• Revised Ethics Report: “Financial compensation of oocyte donors” Fertil Steril 2007;88:305-9. 

• News from NICHD (from the Spring 2007 ASRM News)

• ASRM Practice Guideline: Pathogenesis, consequences, and control of peritoneal adhesions in gynecologic surgery published July 2007. Practice Committee Guidelines are accessible to ASRM members only.

• Menopausal Medicine: Fall 2007 Preview (PDF) Inside find: Evolving evidence from clinical trials

• New SREI Brochure: Role of the OB-GYN and Reproductive Endocrinologist in Evaluating Fertility (PDF)

• New Coding Q & A

• New ARM Regional Meetings

• AESIG Message From the Chair  

• NPG Message From the Chair  

• ASRM News Summer Issue, Volume 41 Number 2 (PDF)  

• MHPG Message from the Chair and MHPG Summer 2007 Newsletter (PDF)

• Women's Council Message from the Chair  

• EndoSIG Message from the Chair  

• SREI Feedback Newsletter Summer 2007 issue (PDF)  

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 9 No 14:  NPPES Data to Go Public - Providers Are Advised to Check for Accuracy and Remove Sensitive Optional Data 

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 9 No 15:  The American Society for Reproductive Medicine Comments on Estrogen Therapy and Coronary-Artery Calcification: Report to appear in the New England Journal of Medicine

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 9 No 16:  Date for NPPES Data Going Public Postponed until August 1 - Physicians Should Edit their Data by July 16 

Added August 2007

• 2007 CREST (Clinical Research/Reproductive Scientist Training) Scholars Announced - Congratulations! to Mira G. Aubuchon, M.D.; Melinda B. Henne, M.D.; and G. Wright Bates, Jr., M.D. 

• New MHPG Book Reviews on books for patients

• Highlights from Fertility and Sterility: New Report Shows Average Compensation For Egg Donors Less Than $5000; Compensation Varies By Region from May 2007, Volume 87 Number 5

• Assisted reproductive technology in the United States: 2001 results generated from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine/Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology Registry from Fertil Steril 2007;87:1253-66.

• ASRM Practice Guideline: 2006 Guidelines for gamete and embryo donation published November 2006; revised June 2007. Practice Committee Guidelines are accessible to ASRM members only. 

• ASRM Press Release: Highlights from Fertility & Sterility, Vol. 87, No. 5, May 2007

• ASRM Press Release: The American Society for Reproductive Medicine Comments on “Estrogen Therapy and Coronary-Artery Calcification" Report to Appear in the New England Journal of Medicine  

• ASRM Press Release: Bush Stem Cell Funding Policy Denies Fertility Patients the Opportunity to Donate Unneeded Embryos to Advance Medical Research: ASRM and SART Comment on Research to Appear in Science and Bush Veto of Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act

• ASRM News Spring 2007 issues (PDF)  

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 9 No 9:  Media Update

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 9 No 10:  Highlights From Fertility And Sterility, Volume 87, Number 5  

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 9 No 11:  Sign On Letter- Show Congress And The President That Scientific And Medical Professionals Support Stem Cell Research

• ASRM Bulletin Vol 9 No 12:  Action Alert: This Thursday The House Votes On The Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act - Call Your Representatives Today To Tell Them To Vote “Yea”  

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