Affordable Egg Donor Program Available In South Carolina

Network Morning Show Only Tells Part Of The Story

[Columbia, SC]—[March 21, 2006]—Couples considering egg donor programs, as treatment for infertility, have more affordable options than those characterized on a national morning news program.

Advanced Fertility & Reproductive Endocrinology Institute, in West Columbia, South Carolina, has direct relationships with quality egg donors that eliminate so-called “egg brokers” and dramatically reduce the expense for donor recipients.

On the NBC program “Today” this morning, an egg broker was a featured guest and quoted egg donor expenses at levels three or more times that of the Columbia, SC specialty clinic.

“We have the benefit of having a good population of local donors who have been carefully screened for a benevolent attitude. We look for qualified young women who truly have a heart for helping couples in need of a donated egg,” stated Dr. Gail-Whitman Elia, Advanced Fertility’s director and founder. “Only about two out of one hundred applicants are accepted through our rigid screening and the more affordable cost of living in our area allows us to service couples for a fraction of the expense associated with large city facilities.”

Dr. Whitman-Elia also credited the fine colleges and universities in the Columbia area as another reason top quality donors are available locally.

“The bottom line is that couples don’t have to deal with an egg broker and the associated higher expense,” stated Dr. Whitman-Elia. “Centers like ours eliminate the middleman leading to the same therapies at a more reasonable patient investment”

Advanced Fertility & Reproductive Endocrinology Institute, LLC is a “one-stop shop”, all services needed to complete an appropriate patient evaluation and render successful treatment. Director and founder, Gail Whitman-Elia, MD, is a board-certified subspecialist in reproductive endocrinology and infertility, a certification held by fewer than 1% of all physicians in the United States. She is a member of The Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology; The Society for Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility; The Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics; Fellow, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists; Fellow, American college of Endocrinology; American Association of Bioanalysts.

www.ivfwecare.com

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