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IRA eNewsletter - January 2010 
Happy New Year and Happy New Decade! I sincerely hope you all had a wonderful holiday season. I was fortunate enough to spend the last week of December in sunny Florida with family. I came back home feeling energized and rejuvenated. I am very excited about the direction IRA is headed in 2010 and beyond. Our practice continues to grow and thrive. My colleague, Amy Balcerak, will now be offering evening appointments on Tuesday and Wednesday to go along with her regular Saturday hours. For those of you who haven't met Amy yet, she is an outstanding practitioner and a big part of the reason why we continue to achieve such wonderful success. We hope her expanded hours will make it easier for some of our patients to schedule appointments here at IRA. I wish you all the very best in 2010 and beyond. I hope you find something interesting or useful in these eNewsletters. I look forward to seeing you soon. Take care and be well, David Youran Bluetooth Phones May Cause Decreased Fertility in Men 
Men who carry a cellphone in their pants pocket in the talk mode while using a Bluetooth device may experience decreased fertility, according to a study reported today by Renal and Urology News. The findings were presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine in Atlanta. "We found increased oxidative stress and a decrease in sperm motility," said investigator Ashok Agarwal, director of Reproductive Research at Cleveland Clinic, according to Renaland Urology News. Women Aren't Waiting to Seek Infertility Help 
Most American women know that age is an important factor in the success of fertility treatments, finds a new survey of 763 women, aged 18 and older, including 125 women who've had fertility treatment. The HealthyWomen poll found that 88 percent of respondents were under age 35 when they first sought medical advice about their fertility. The survey asked women about their views and priorities when it comes to having children, and their experiences when seeking medical help to treat fertility problems. 50 percent believed fertility problems are equally likely to be a female or male issue, while just 5 percent believed men are more likely to be infertile. In fact, infertility is a female problem in 40 percent of cases, a male problem in 40 percent of cases, and a combined or unexplained problem in 20 percent of cases, according to HealthyWomen. Your Fertility and Health Care Reform 
Missouri State Rep. Steve Hodges (D) has proposed legislation (H.B. 1305) requiring all insurance companies to provide coverage for infertility. While there are no recent studies on the financial impact of infertility due to a lack of research financing, a 2002 study in The New England Journal of Medicine found that people with mandated health coverage transferred fewer embryos. The big question now is whether this bill, and a number of others proposed by different states, will push the country towards mandated national coverage in President Obama’s new health plan. So far, infertility coverage has not made it into proposed national health care reform, but any federal law that passes may affect existing state fertility mandates, according to Barbara Collura, the Executive Director of RESOLVE: the National Infertility Association. At a December, 2009 meeting in Washington, D.C. on “The Adequacy of ART Oversight,” hosted by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), Collura saw changes ahead, "Count on every state mandate being looked at," she predicted. To read more of this article...
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