NATIONAL MEDIA APPEARANCES

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RECENT INTERVIEW

Fox News, July, 2008

Dr. Frederick Licciardi spoke with E.D. Hill about a study released by the University of Copenhagen that shows frozen embryo babies may be healthier than those born from fresh ones in a segment titled Ice Ice Baby.

 

RECENT MEDIA QUOTES

The New England Journal of Medicine, December 15, 2005

Dr. Licciardi is the Chief Reproductive Endocrinologist in the SELENA study group, organized to study the affects of estrogen on women with Lupus. Dr. Licciardi co-authored the original article Combined Oral Contraceptives in Women with systemic Lupus Erythematosus.

Conclusion: Our study indicates that oral contraceptives do not increase the risk of flare among women with systemic lupus erythematosus whose disease is stable.

Prevention Guide: How to Get Pregnant, August 2005

Skip the Gender Selection Kits

There is no good scientific evidence that either of these kits works, says Frederick Licciardi, MD, a reproductive endocrinologist at New York University School of Medicine.
Ask about starting with IVF
Assuming you have no medical issues, IVF may offer your best odds of conception. “It’s not unheard of these days for patients to walk into clinics and say, ‘I know everything you have to offer. Just give me in vitro.’ They know the numbers,” says Frederick Licciardi, MD, associate director of endocrinology at New York University.

Elle, July 2005

Most of the mainstream clinics offering the new complementary methods make no such claim [that stress diminishes chances of conception]. The success metric they set is simply helping women to feel better during the typically grueling fertility process. “If women can just view this as a place that isn’t antagonistic,” says Fred Licciardi, MD, of NYU’s Fertility Center, “that’s success.”

US Weekly, June 2005

Bad Dads In Hollywood?

“It [smoking] may be a bigger risk than people know,” Dr. Frederick Licciardi, an NYCbased fertility specialist, tells Us. “We know it’s bad if a pregnant woman smokes. You have to assume that inhaling the smoke [secondhand] is going to be bad as well.”

What can happen? Tobacco smoke contains nicotine, which can increase the heart rate of the fetus, explains Licciardi. “And you’re inhaling carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide, which can also restrict its growth.” Expert advice “[Spears and Garner] need to avoid breathing in that smoke,” says Licciardi. “tell him to go outside!”

Newsday, January 9, 2005

Is the Clock Ticking for Men, Too?

You don’t want to waste time,” said Dr. Frederick Licciardi, of the NYU Program for IVF Reproductive Surgery and Infertility. “If you have a woman who’s 38, and you work up her husband [for treatment] for six months, and wait six months, and now a year’s gone by, she’s 39—she may have just fallen off a cliff.

The New York Observer, June 28-July 5, 2004

The Orgasmatron Finally Shows Up: High-Tech Rhythm Basically a Thermometer

[About Lady-Comp] “It’s basically a thermometer. Nothing more, nothing less,” said Dr. Frederick Licciardi, an Associate Professor at N.Y.U. School of Medicine in the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. “Therefore it’s as accurate as a thermometer in helping with contraception or conception. Therefore it’s as useless as a thermometer.
“Natural family planning will help lower a woman’s chance of getting pregnant,” Dr. Licciardi continued. “The failure rate of that method of contraception is the highest of any form of birth control. You could follow all the steps perfectly and still get pregnant. The reason why the methods are less effective—even in a very regular person—is that there is still some swing in the time of ovulation.”

The Wall Street Journal, November 23, 2004

Relax: Fertility Improves When Stress Is Set Aside, Studies Find

Infertility experts warn that relaxation techniques are no magic bullet. “The studies are far from conclusive. They involve a small number of patients,” says Frederick Licciardi, associate division director of reproductive endocrinology at the New York University School of Medicine. Even so, the NYU infertility practice is launching its own holistic program early next year. The program will include some relaxation techniques. “If the worst-case scenario is that the pregnancy rate is the same and the patients feel better, that is still a successful program,” he says.

Glamour, November 2004

We were just curious…

Q: How do you change the date of your period—say, if you have a romantic vacation planned?

A: Pill takers can safely skip the placebos and start right in on a new pack—so you won’t get your period at all that month, says Frederick Licciardi, M.D., associate professor of ob-gyn at New York University School of Medicine in New York City. If you’re not on the Pill, talk to your doctor. You might be able to go on it short-term to skip your period.

Q: Why does the blood change color as the days go by?

A: By day three or four you’re passing blood that’s been in your uterus for several days— and as it “ages” it turns a darker, brownish color, says Dr. Licciardi.

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