News and Events
NEW Doctor E. Scott Sills referred to extensively in Fertility Authority site article on Single Embryo Transfer. “I think most programs in the U.S. and Canada, [have laboratory support with] a very good level of fluency with extended embryo cultures and testing embryos, so the best selections can be made to improve the chances that a single embryo transfer will result in a healthy singleton live birth,” says E. Scott Sills, a fertility doctor with Pacific Reproductive Center in Irvine, CA.
NEW Doctor E. Scott Sills quoted in Fertility Authority site article. “The authors of the Lancet paper are saying that for patients that are 40 years and older, the ideal target of a single embryo transfer is going to reduce their chances of having a positive outcome,” says E. Scott Sills, a fertility doctor with Pacific Reproductive Medicine in Irvine, CA. “The authors are not saying that a number higher than two should be transferred, and I would certainly endorse that viewpoint.”
NEW Doctor Reunites With One of His First IVF Babies, Now 19LOS ANGELES (May 31, 2011) – When April Gooding was born 19 years ago in Torrance, infants like her were called “test tube babies” and in vitro fertilization was still considered experimental. Nearly two decades later, almost 4 million IVF babies have been born since, including several hundred who will soon join April in reuniting with the fertility expert who helped create her as one of his first successes.
NEW Array CCH – Breakthrough Science for Miscarriages & Birth DefectsLOS ANGELES (May 9, 2011) – Pacific Reproductive Center (PRC), a southern California fertility medical practice founded in 1996, announced today that it is the first private in vitro fertilization (IVF) clinic nationally to open an on-site laboratory with breakthrough technology – microarray comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) – for analyzing human embryo chromosomes within 24 hours.
NEW Hundreds Expected at PRC 20th Anniversary Baby Reunion June 18We hope you’ll join us for PRC’s annual family reunion, when more than 300 families get together for a day of special guests, fun, games, and celebration.
Nobel Prize for IVF yields new perspective on advances:
Recipient’s award is a stark reminder of how quickly the fertility treatment has become mainstream, says Pacific Reproductive Center’s Dr. Rifaat Salem
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PRC Events
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Fathers Day 2010
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Baby Reunion Press ReleasePacific Reproductive Center Recognizes Medical Milestone at their Annual Baby Reunion on Father’s Day Weekend. The first baby born from a chromosomally tested frozen egg through IVF in Southern California. |
2010 Baby Reunion Daily BreezeThe Pacific Reproductive Center in Torrance hosted its Annual Baby Reunion where former patients and their children, conceived by IVF through the center, met and enjoyed an afternoon of festivities. – Daily Breeze |
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LA Health News
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| “At Pacific Reproductive Center, it is our mission to provide the most advanced, comprehensive reproductive treatments to all of our patients in a comfortable, warm, personal environment,” says founder and medical director Dr. Rifaat Salem. “We feel that it is our duty to our patients to optimize all of the conditions of treatment in order to give each and every couple the greatest chance of success.” |
