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The Plan Ahead Report provides valuable directional information to womenplanning to have children after their late twenties. Women with fasterbiological clocks should seek further advice from fertility experts to helpensure that they can have the families they were hoping for.
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"Reproductive Medicine & Fertility Center is proud of our nationalleadership in research and development in the field of reproductivetechnologies, and we always seek out the most advanced testing and treatmentoptions for our patients," said RMFC founder and medical director Paul C.Magarelli, MD, Ph.D. "We believe in 'high tech with a personal touch,' so itis fitting that RMFC is the first IVF center in the Southwest to offer thePlan Ahead test, where we can provide women with the individual assessment oftheir own ovarian reserve to help them make more informed decisions about whento try for a baby."
Dr. Magarelli added, "Males have had a test to quantify their reproductivepotentials by obtaining a semen analysis, while, until now, women have had touse surrogate testing, Day 3 FSH, Clomid challenge tests, etc. to give anestimate of their reproductive capacities. The Plan Ahead test helps couples-- the worried fertile -- get real facts about their eggs that they can use toshape a plan on the path to parenthood." Magarelli noted that RMFC "continuesto lead in the development of cost-effective IVF care and we are proud to bethe first in the Southwest to partner with Repromedix to provide all females aprecise tool -- the Plan Ahead test -- for assessing their fertilitypotential."
"The Plan Ahead test represents an extraordinary advance in fertilitydiagnostics compared to what has been readily available to the generalpopulation," said Dr. Benjamin Leader, Chief Medical Officer of RepromedixCorp. "Many fertility experts view the gold standard of egg supply measurementto be the number of eggs obtained through egg retrieval, an expensiveprocedure reserved for specialty fertility clinics involving hormoneinjections and a minimally invasive procedure. The Plan Ahead test offerssimilar information to the general public via a simple blood test."
Repromedix Corp., the Plan Ahead test co-developer and leading nationaldiagnostic laboratory for fertility testing, chose Reproductive Medicine &Fertility Center to be one of a select number of IVF centers to debut thetest. Repromedix will expand the Plan Ahead test launch to major marketsacross the United States throughout 2008.
Plan Ahead is now available to women in the Greater Denver area, and womeninterested in the Plan Ahead test can purchase a test online atwww.planaheadtest.com/us or at Reproductive Medicine & Fertility Center, wherethey can also have their blood drawn. The blood sample is sent to Repromedix,whose lab performs the advanced testing and submits the report andrecommendations to the patient's physician. The cost of the Plan Ahead test is$350.
Women interested in learning more about Plan Ahead should visitwww.planaheadtest.com/us.
About Reproductive Medicine and Fertility Centers
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Reproductive Medicine & Fertility Centers was established in
