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Is Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) for Menopause Safe?
A report about the health risks of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for relief of menopause symptoms scared many women away from the therapy, but Dr. Rink Murray says it’s still a good option for some women if correctly administered.
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With Faith & Trust, Couple is Doubly Blessed
The Talberts knew that starting a family as an older couple might not be particularly easy. Michelle and Tim each believed their biological clocks would soon quit ticking and the time to have children was upon them. As a nurse, Michelle met her husband, a cardiac electrophysiologist, through mutual friends. Both were on their second…
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Finding a Way Through PCOS
A patient success story After two years of marriage, my husband and I were ready to expand our family, however I was concerned about my PCOS diagnosis. I explained to my husband that it could be hard for me to get pregnant, but he did not believe that we would have any difficulty. Several months…
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TRM Understands Infertility Stress
Tennessee Reproductive Medicine (TRM) partners Dr. Rink Murray and Dr. Jessica Scotchie launched the “IVF Guarantee Program” last week as demonstration of their commitment to”do everything possible to minimize the financial and emotional stress of infertility.”
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Ask a Doctor
A: Leg pain during menses is certainly not the most common complaint women have, but it has been reported in the medical literature for many years. Sometimes there is no known cause for this.
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Infertility, an Unexpected Trial
A patient success story Ashley and Jordan Allen never imagined that they would have an infertility story. They moved to Chattanooga when they were married in July of 2007, they settled into careers (Ashley is a recreation therapist and Jordan is a mechanical engineer), and expected they would become pregnant soon after stopping birth control in…
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My TRM Story: Praying for a Miracle
My OB/GYN told me that I was young and that I just needed to give it time. But it was hard to be patient. My husband wasn’t all that worried, but I freaked out a little more and more every day. At the end of the second year, I went back to the gynecologist for…
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An RN’s Infertility Journey
by Stephanie Kibble I’m a registered nurse who faced infertility and overcame the physical and emotionally draining challenges. This was a new area of medicine for me because I’m an adult cardiac nurse. It was a great learning experience and I had to research the basics just as anyone facing infertility needs to do. The…
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Too Much Exercise – and Too Little – Can Affect Fertility
In U.S. News & World Report, Dr. Jessica Scotchie discusses a study showing that women of a normal weight who do five or more hours a week of vigorous exercise were 42 percent less likely to get pregnant than women who did not exercise at all.
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Trouble Trying to Conceive? This May Be Why
“Very vigorous exercise can affect ovulation, and thereby disrupt menstrual cycles,” says Jessica Scotchie, a reproductive endocrinologist practicing in Chattanooga, Tenn.
