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Fertility Clinic Saves Embryos From Sandy | Redux

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Fertility Clinic Saves Embryos From Sandy

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Among all the rescues carried out during the chaos caused by Sandy the most delicate was the mission to save embryos in rows of incubators that were in jeopardy when the NYU Fertility Clinic lost its power. The Manhattan clinic lost power shortly after Sandy struck Monday night. A generator perched atop the 8-story building kept incubators running through the night, but flooding in the basement cut off its fuel supply. "The generator ran out of gas around 8:15 Tuesday morning," said Dr. James Grifo, the clinic's director. Without power, rows of incubators housing delicate embryos at womb-temperature for in vitro fertilization began to cool. But Grifo and his team took action, hoisting five-gallon cans of diesel fuel up darkened stairwells to feed the failing generator. "It was really a privilege to be part of that," Grifo said of his staff's "heroic" efforts.

People:

Dr. James Grifo

Overall Sentiment: 0.315996

Relevance: 0.953282

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0"The generator ran out of gas around 8:15 Tuesday morning," said Dr. James Grifo, ...
0.119709"It was really a privilege to be part of that," Grifo said ...
0.186392"It's amazing what people can do when everyone's on the same page," Grifo said, ...
0.151696"It's a testament to the people in New York who work in medicine," he added. ...
-0.171671"It's a testament to the people in New York who work in medicine," he added. "Some of our most vicious competitors offered assistance."
0.207769"Hopefully we'll get some babies out of it, and that'll be a nice story as well," he said. ...
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 6
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.493895
  • Mean: 0.082315833333333
  • Standard Deviation: 0

Sandy

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.730338

Dr. James Goldfarb

Overall Sentiment: 0.210022

Relevance: 0.345587

SentimentQuote
0"There's so much riding on this," said Dr. James Goldfarb, ...
0"There's so much riding on this," said Dr. James Goldfarb, director of the University Hospitals Fertility Center in Cleveland. "Even when everything's going smoothly, it's stressful for women. But add the stress of having to start all over again, that's extremely stressful."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 2
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0
  • Mean: 0
  • Standard Deviation: 0

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Additional Info:

Facility: Manhattan clinic

Overall Sentiment: -0.335702

Relevance: 0.632721

Facility: Fertility Clinic

Overall Sentiment: -0.564043

Relevance: 0.509433

Facility: Battery Park

Overall Sentiment: -0.0820114

Relevance: 0.322214

GeographicFeature: East River

Overall Sentiment: 0.0475281

Relevance: 0.32872

City: New York

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.317398

Disambiguation: PoliticalDistrict | GovernmentalJurisdiction | PlaceWithNeighborhoods | WineRegion | FilmScreeningVenueReferences:

City: Cleveland

Overall Sentiment: 0.258103

Relevance: 0.306584

Organization: NYU fertility Center

Overall Sentiment: 0.153116

Relevance: 0.540371

Organization: University Hospitals Fertility Center

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.406982

FieldTerminology: embryos

Overall Sentiment: 0.172922

Relevance: 0.733308

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