Fertilys
1950 Maurice Gauvin Rue # 103 H7S 1Z5 Laval, QC, Canada

We wish you all a happy Holiday Season. 2020 will has been a challenging year. Nonetheless, let's try to take advantage of this festive moment to recharge our batteries, enjoy our immediate loved ones and the little pleasures of life.

Nous vous souhaitons à toutes et tous un joyeux temps des fêtes. 2020 aura été une année éprouvante. Essayons tout de même de profiter de ce moment de fête pour nous ressourcer, profiter de nos proches immédiats et des petits plaisirs de la vie.

With the year coming to an end, we would like to thank all of our patients and more specifically those who came to the clinic following the resumption of our activities. We have taken our precautions to ensure a safe environment for all, and you played your part by respecting social distancing and hygiene guidelines. Thanks a million.

En cette fin d’année, nous tenons à remercier tous nos patients et plus spécifiquement ceux et celles qui sont passés à la clinique suite à la reprise de nos activités. Nous avons pris nos précautions pour garantir un environnement de travail sécuritaire et vous avez fait votre part en respectant les consignes de distanciation sociale et d’hygiène. Mille Merci.

Our team takes the appropriate measures to ensure sample security all year round. Embryos and gametes are kept in storage tanks, filled with liquid nitrogen at -196 degrees celsius. Twice a week, these tanks are filled manually by embryologists using large tanks of liquid nitrogen provided by our supplier. Additionally, our embryologists check these tanks on a daily basis. For added security, the tanks have a probe connected to our alarm system, itself connected to a cell pho...ne carried at all times by the laboratory coordinator to warn her. To learn more about cryopreservation: https://www.fertilys.org//in-vitro-ferti/cryopreservation/

#FunFact Decades of poaching have taken their toll on rhino species. In vitro fertilization treatments were announced in 2018 in an effort to keep the subspecies of the northern white rhinoceros alive: this subspecies has unfortunately only two females alive. The goal is to create viable embryos in a lab by inseminating the eggs of the two remaining females with frozen sperm from dead males, and then transferring them to a surrogate mother, a southern white rhino.... Due to travel restrictions imposed by COVID19, the plans have been put on hold. We wholeheartedly hope that science will allow the reintroduction of the species. We could potentially send our wonderful embryologists as reinforcements.

#FaitDivers Des décennies de braconnage ont ravagé les espèces de rhinocéros. Les traitements de fécondation in vitro ont été annoncés en 2018 pour maintenir en vie la sous-espèce du rhinocéros blanc du Nord qui ne compte plus que deux femelles. L'objectif est de créer des embryons viables dans un laboratoire en fécondant les ovules des deux femelles restantes avec du sperme congelé de mâles morts, puis de les transférer dans une mère porteuse, un rhinocéros blanc du Sud.... Aux dernières nouvelles, les plans d’implantation ont été suspendus en raison des restrictions de voyage imposées par la COVID19. On souhaite de tout coeur pour que la science permette la réintroduction de l'espèce. On pourrait peut-être envoyer nos merveilleux embryologistes en renfort

From November 8 to 14, we celebrate Medical Ultrasound Technologists Week, a week that coincides with the anniversary of the discovery of X-rays on November 8, 1895. This week aims to promote the profession and to highlight the essential role played by technologists in the health network. We'd like to seize this opportunity to also recognize the excellent work and dedication of our medical ultrasound technologist Andrée-Anne Bouchard. To better understand how we examine organ...s using medical imaging https://www.fertilys.org//ferti/female-fertility-check-up/ See more

Du 8 au 14 novembre, nous célébrons la semaine des technologues, une semaine qui coïncide avec l’anniversaire de la découverte des rayons X, le 8 novembre 1895. Cette semaine vise à mieux faire connaître la profession et à souligner le rôle essentiel joué par les technologues dans le réseau de la santé. Nous aimerions également saisir cette opportunité pour souligner l’excellent travail et le dévouement de notre technologue en échographie médicale Andrée-Anne Bouchard. Pour ...en savoir plus sur l’examination des organes à l’aide de l’imagerie médicale https://www.fertilys.org//bilan-de-fertilite-chez-la-femme/ See more

It was with great joy and relief that we learned yesterday of the Quebec government’s decision to table a bill to restore public funding for infertile couples. By tabling Bill 73, we now have a better understanding of the parameters for the return of Quebec's public medically assisted procreation program. Bill 73 has yet to be debated in parliamentary committee and approved by a vote from the Quebec National Assembly, regardless, we view it as a step in the right direction. I...nfertile couples have finally been heard. We believe that the current bill lays the foundations for a public program that we want to be sustainable and fair for our patients. We will carefully study the details of this bill and hope to be able to intervene in a parliamentary committee in order to improve it, given our experience in the field. Over time, we hope the bill will be refined, improved, for the benefit of all stakeholders. To all infertile couples, to all our patients, you can count on our commitment to defend your interests. Since the 80's, Dr Miron has been involved in all of the battles. He founded several assisted reproduction programs, he proposed the tax credit to the late Bernard Landry, Minister of the Economy at the time. He was present in parliamentary committee alongside Julie Snyder and the former president of the Association of infertile couples, Caroline Amireault, during the implementation of the previous program. Today, Dr Miron has the entire Fertilys team by his side and our entire team is committed to utilizing his experience and know-how to the benefit of infertile couples but also to assist the government in making the Quebec medically assisted procreation public program a real success.