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2017 ESHRE in Geneva !!!


It's been full and interesting weeks in Switzerland, Europe. On June 30th, we spent around 11 hours from Taiwan to Zurich, and another 3 hours from Zurich to Geneva. There were six people in our "ESHRE team," including four embryologists and two reproductive geneticists. Such a big team!





Since I had both the poster and oral presentations at this conference, it was a seriously special experience for us. We all attended to the pre-congress course and main course, covering all aspects of IVF and pregnancy. We rent an apartment through Arbnb, and it looked cosy and lovely: three bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a clean kitchen.


The local supermarket, COOP, was very near to our place. Thanks to COOP, we could prepare the meals with our colleagues together. I did not expect that we can really do something out of the lab, and the results showed awesome.




(No one can read tags, because it was written in French, lol. Don't worry, we still have our google.)





(I tried the yogurt in coffee taste, and I am sure that it was not my type.)



We had four days in ESHRE, including one day of pre-congress course. I took the part of genetics in reproduction, focusing on the talks related with DNAs, gene expression, PGS, and mitochondria ... etc. My own oral and poster topics were in PGS: one was the correlationship between the mosaicism and individual chromosome lengths; and another one was the effect of male factors in embryo ploidies. We took a photo in front of our e-poster, and I really appreciate our design group, since the poster looked very nice!





The oral presentation made me anxious for couple of weeks. I definitely got teary when I received the acceptance, though I felt both headache and stomachache before my session. I decided not to think about the people sat under the stage, and looked one of my colleague stood beside the entrance. It was good that I have finished everything now!



We stayed at the conference until the last minute of the last talk, and gave us a big applause! Then we traveled around the city of Geneva, visiting the University of Geneva and the riverside park.

(We just pretended that we were the college students. Maybe ph.D student? :D)


(Nice weather and pretty view relived my heart.)




(Kids were happy everywhere.)




(Full-view)

We did not cook for the last night, and decided to eat the "real" Siwss food. We choose the restaurant named "Les Armures," and ordered the pink wine for celebration! The location was close to the University of Geneva.







(Cheers!!)



Anyway, it was a wonderful trip with the Stork team! You were my best backups, and everyone was so functional. Thank you, guys. xoxo

(Our gentlemen, Duke, was holding the camera, not in the photo.)



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Stork Fertility Center in Taiwan Chamber of Commerce in Canada



During May 1st to 3rd in 2017, Taiwan Chamber of Commerce in Canada (TCCCA) hold "2017 Taiwan Medical Services Orientation" in couple of places in Canada, introducing more facets of Taiwan medical techniques to the local expatriates whose original language are Chinese. The Taiwanese representatives were from aesthetic or cosmetic medical center, dental department, health evaluation center, ophthalmology department, and fertility center. Stork Fertility Center was the only delegate of infertility, showing the patient-friendly program design, advanced assisted reproductive techniques and competitive prices to the people in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.



Raymond Chen, the project manager of the overseas service department at Stork Fertility Center, displayed "four clouds in IVF" to the audiences, 


1st Cloud: Oocyte and Sperm Bank:

-- The leading bank in Asia, which covers all the blood type:A/B/O/AB



-- Approximately 70% of pregnancy rate

-- Sufficient oocyte/sperm supply and top oocyte/sperm quality 








2nd Cloud: International Medical Services:

-- Personal consultant

-- Agency services for the official required documents

-- Transportation and Hospitality

-- Instant Interpretation


3rd Cloud: Reproductive genetic exams

-- Preimplantation genetic screening (PGS) 

-- Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD)


-- Carrier genetic test (CGT)

-- Endometrial receptivity assay (ERA) 





4th Cloud: Social oocyte freezing 

-- Individualized COS treatment

-- Contract protection

-- Fertility insurance

We are walking out of Taiwan to find whom needs us.




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International medical service provides more convenience to the patients


To have better medical service than home country, medical tourism has become a more popular word. For example, Asian patients with cancer or cardiovascular diseases would go to Japan or other developed countries for the advanced treatments. In the realm of reproductive medicine, the condition for patients who need donated oocytes is different. Since the law restricted the oocyte donation in Japan, patients must find a solution overseas.

The assisted reproductive technology has been developed around one decade in Taiwan. In 2007, the oocyte donation was allowed in Taiwan by the authority decree, and the oocyte cryopreservation for social reason as well. For patients with authorized marriage certificate, they can take the oocyte-donation program if the wife's ovarian reserve displayed significant diminished, because taking more IVF cycles seems inefficient.


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A patient friendly corifollitropin alfa protocol without routine pituitary suppression in normal responders



Author
Huai-Ling Wang1, Hsing-Hua Lai1, Tzu-Hsuan Chuang1, Yu-Wei Shih1, Shih-Chieh Huang1, Meng-Ju Lee1, Shee-Uan Chen2
Affiliation
1Stork Fertility Center, Stork Ladies Clinic, Hsinchu, Taiwan (R.O.C)
2Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan (R.O.C)
Publication
Keywords
Corifollitropin alfa;  Controlled ovarian stimulation;  GnRH antagonist












Introduction

Reducing the frequency of injections in an in vitro fertilization (IVF) program is a patient-friendly way to decrease the mental stress and financial burden in infertile couples. The release of corifollitropin alfa simplifies daily injections of short-acting recombinant follicular stimulating hormone (rFSH), and its widely-used protocol involves short-acting gonadotropins supplements and a fixed GnRH antagonist regimen, largely based on follicle size. In this study, the feasibility of corifollitropin alfa without routine pituitary suppression was evaluated, and it may further simplify the injection protocol.

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Career first, children later: Taiwan women put their eggs on ice

HSINCHU, Taiwan | Tue Aug 27, 2013 10:44am IST
(Reuters) - Caught between traditional expectations and career pressures, working women in Taiwan are increasingly opting to freeze their eggs at fertility clinics as they postpone marriage and motherhood.
An employee checks oocytes and embryos (in the sealed test tubes) in tanks filled with liquid nitrogen in a storage room at the e-Stork Reproductive Center in Hsinchu, northern Taiwan, August 8, 2013. REUTERS/Pichi Chuang/Files




Women play a big part in Taiwan's workforce, trailing only New Zealand and Australia for female employment among 14 countries in Asia, a recent report by MasterCard showed.


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e-Stork helps hemophilia carrier have healthy child

2010/04/29 20:11:31



Taipei, April 29 (CNA) A biotechnology company in Taiwan said Thursday that it has helped a local woman who carries the hemophilia gene to conceive a baby who will not suffer from hemophilia -- a genetic disease that makes bleeding uncontrollable -- and hailed it as the first case in Asia.
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Angel is coming !

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e-Stork Nest

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