Yale Medicine Magazine

For older parents or parents struggling with certain medical conditions who want to have children, fertility treatment is a modern technological miracle. Doctors at Yale School of Medicine provide an array of services, while leading research with exciting clinical applications.

At the same time researchers are developing innovative new ways to treat infertility, clinicians are making sure the existing techniques are as effective and efficient as possible.

As medicine's understanding of endometriosis has advanced, treatments and procedures have been developed to address the painful affliction.

People are working more and waiting longer to conceive. Doctors like David Seifer, MD, and Emre Seli, MD, are trying to slow the process of aging to help aid successful pregnancies among older couples.

Minimally invasive surgical procedures have given doctors a powerful tool to cure a variety of conditions without endangering patient health unnecessarily. Ultrasound has played an important role in that development.

Research into clinical applications for prenatal gene therapy could offer hope to infants in the womb identified as developing grave conditions such as cystic fibrosis

Linda Armstrong, MD '88, a pulmonologist and Head of Novartis' Global Respiratory Development Unit, has been pursuing an interest in science and medicine since a summertime high school laboratory job.

Melissa Thomas has worn many hats along her path to becoming a healer. Each has informed who she is and who she aims to be: an emergency medicine physician.

Yale’s director of reproductive endocrinology and infertility grew up with a passion for understanding how things work and why. She applies that energy to helping people who have difficulty conceiving.