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.
In our most recent postings, we discuss General Infertility News.
And—yes—we succeeded in putting together a package of articles on general fertility news without criticizing the genetic testing industry or even mentioning preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy (PGT-A)! Instead, today we offer a potpourri of clinical infertility news, mostly to point out how not to report things in the medical literature when it comes to other issues!
The increasing tendency of many even well-respected medical journals to accept obviously flawed papers appears to be becoming a recurrent theme here at The Reproductive Times. In today’s posting, we discuss some publications that face this criticism. Our purpose with today’s posting, in other words, is to demonstrate “how not to do things,” since that—at times—is, of course, easier than demonstrating how to do things right.
Over the next few weeks, we, however, will mostly return to valuable publications that really can teach us something. Though it is not the intent of this comment to associate any medical journal with poor peer review, we will, over the next few days and weeks, really be able to offer some very special materials to the readers of The Reproductive Times. As always, we encourage our readers to look for our postings on Mondays and Fridays (except, of course, this week because of Memorial Day).
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).