IHR Profiles - Dr. Tur-Kaspa

September is Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) Awareness Month. Listen to Dr. Tur-Kaspa’s interview on the podcast _This is Infertility_, a bi-weekly podcast that fuses narrative storytelling with experience and science to give listeners a new perspective on what it’s really like to go through a family building journey.

How many of your friends, sisters, and coworkers, are openly discussing their LH, FSH and AMH over brunch? How often are the terms “stimulation start” or “trigger shot” used in your vocabulary outside of your home or the walls of your physician’s office? Unfortunately, though it is talked about more frequently in 2021, the shame, taboo and stigma of the infertility world perpetuates today.

Controversy swirls around the United States regarding the COVID-19 vaccination, particularly in relation to women hoping to conceive or are pregnant. It is a frequently asked question and concern among women of reproductive age, as the disputing information swirls through the media making it near impossible to comfortably decide about receiving the vaccine at this time. However, upon reviewing the data, it is highly advised for all women of reproductive age to roll up their sleeves for the COVID-19 vaccine.