Xytex Marks 30th Year of Creating Families through Innovation
Since 1975 fertility specialists worldwide have turned to Xytex Corporation to provide donor sperm to help their patients have healthy babies through assisted reproduction.
Augusta, GA (PRWEB via PR Web
Direct) January 26, 2005 -- Since 1975 fertility specialists worldwide have
turned to Xytex Corporation to provide donor sperm to help their patients have
healthy babies through assisted reproduction.
Over the past three
decades, thousands of babies have been conceived using Xytex donor semen.
Initially, only anonymous donor semen was offered to physicians whose patients
were experiencing male factor infertility. Some years later, Xytex took the lead
in offering recipients the option of Open Identity Donors who are willing to
release their identity to their offspring once the child reaches age of majority
(18).
From corporate offices in Augusta, Ga., and a second office in
Atlanta, the sperm bank has grown tremendously over these past 30 years under
the leadership of its president, Armand M. Karow, Ph.D. Born out of a medical
research environment under the direction of Dr. Karow, Xytex has stayed on the
cutting edge of reproductive medicine.
Under its mantra of “creating
families through innovation,” Xytex offers a family of services to meet every
need of assisted reproductive technology, including an egg donor program through
Xytex Ovations and sperm and embryo storage available through Xytex Tissue
Storage.
Faced with infertility, more and more women are choosing an egg
donor to help fulfill their dream of motherhood. Rather than turning to the
Internet to find a donor, women can now trust Xytex Ovations for qualified egg
donors who are evaluated just as carefully using ASRM (American Society for
Reproductive Medicine) standards as Xytex’s semen donors.
Choosing to
have a child using a donor gamete is a lifetime decision and one not to be made
lightly. Recipients can rest assured that only a small percentage of those who
apply as donors actually qualify after being evaluated socially, medically,
psychologically and genetically.
Over the past 30 years, Xytex has
sustained its heritage as a leader in providing technologically excellent
services. Equally important, Xytex is committed to being “high touch.” As part
of the company’s corporate philosophy, Xytex believes that semen and egg donor
recipients and their offspring should have as much information about donors as
donors are willing to provide.
Counted among Xytex firsts are adult
photos of donors (Photofile™ in 1994), baby photos of donors (Babyfile™ in
1996), videos of donors (Videofile™ in 1998) and most recently, the I.N.F.O.
program in 2003. I.N.F.O., which stands for Informative Narrated Fone Options,
is the donor industry’s first form of real-time communications. Using a
telephone-based conference call environment, prospective patients hear their
potential donor’s live answers to their pre-submitted questions. Xytex believes
in giving patients access to a closeness that was once considered
unobtainable.
Xytex Tissue Storage (XTS), another vital member of the
corporate family of services, preserves future fertility for those whose chance
of having a child of their own is threatened. Fertility can be put at risk for
reasons ranging from cancer treatment and certain medications to work
environment and vasectomy. In addition to preserving and storing sperm, XTS also
maintains patients’ embryos and preserves ovarian and testicular
tissue.
As part of its ongoing commitment to quality customer service,
Xytex offers physicians and patients the latest information, including its
online donor listing, via its Web site at www.xytex.com.
For more information,
Contact Holly
Fowler
at 800.277.3210
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