About The Reproductive Times
Introducing a new media entity with limitless opportunities, exclusively dedicated to progress in reproductive sciences and reproductive medicine.
September 3, 2024
The Reproductive Times is a new medium established today by Norbert Gleicher, MD, a lifelong physician, scientist, author, and editor in reproductive medicine, and his team, with the goal of becoming a worldwide source for everything worth knowing in reproductive sciences and reproductive clinical medicine. Meant for a range of audiences in reproduction and reproductive health—interested lay public, basic research scientists, clinicians and embryologists (or “laboratory clinicians,” as we like to call them) —this medium will feature a diverse spread of materials for all interest groups, characterized by honesty, transparency, independence from commercial influences and, yes, at times outspokenness and fearlessness.
Articles may offer basic medical and/or scientific information, investigative stories, relevant worldwide news, an ongoing literature review and, of course, commentaries which at times are purposefully meant to be provocative. We expect to interview interesting guests and to offer their comments on camera as well as transcribed and will do the same with debates on controversial issues.
There is so much happening in the field every day that nobody knows about. Just informing readers about a small fraction of the unknown will make The Reproductive Times a successful endeavor. While you may not agree with everything we publish, we argue that this should be a reason to engage. Dissonance and disagreement drive progress and this is, after all, a common goal for everybody interested in reproduction.
We always look for outside contributors. To get in touch, please write to Hello@ReproductiveTimes.com.
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Find our most recent postings below.
Our recent posting features what we believe is a highly important opinion piece by Norbert Gleicher, MD, our founder and editor-in-chief. In it, he challenges the frequently made—and, in our view, illogical—connection between the abortion debate and in vitro fertilization (IVF).
Dr. Gleicher wrote this piece in response to a recent mailing from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), the leading professional society for reproductive medicine and infertility practice in the U.S., in which this connection was prominently featured.
We invite you to share your perspective on this issue. The Reproductive Times, in this instance, agrees with our editor-in-chief—though that is, of course, not always the case.
We feel it is important to emphasize that our goal is not to promote unanimity of opinion. Quite the opposite: we aim to be non-denominational—a word we use deliberately, despite its typical association with religion—because differences of opinion in today’s society, including in medicine, too often mirror the rigid certainties found in religious belief.
Science, by its very nature, cannot operate on absolute certainties. It must always remain open to changing conclusions when new, reliable evidence emerges.
About our Founder:
Norbert Gleicher, MD, FACOG, FACS, is an infertility specialist with decades of clinical experience, widely considered one of the original IVF pioneers in the country who – among many other firsts- published the first vaginal egg retrieval under ultrasound control in the world, which changed IVF practice worldwide. He was also for 20 years the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of In Vitro Fertilization and Embryo Transfer, two years later renamed the Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics (JARG). He is also worldwide recognized as a leading reproductive immunologist, and, indeed, was the first Vice-President of the American Society for Reproductive Immunology and the founding Editor-in-Chief of its journal, The American Journal of Reproductive Immunology (AJRM).