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Latest News Snippets: fertility

The Birth Rate Fallacy

Experts explaining that the global drop in fertility rates is partly a product of women having children later in life.

Ten Years on the Fertility Cycle

Writer Lisa McCarty tells her arduous, ten-year journey to having two children. It included four embryo transfers and four miscarriages.

Is There Really a Fertility ‘Cliff’ at 35?

 Thirty-five can be seen as the age that fertility goes way downhill, but the BBC interviews experts who explain that like much of medicine, it’s a spectrum and the best data shows probabilities—not hard cut-offs.

More Evidence on BMI and Fertility Treatments

Danish study of over 327,000 children found there was no association between BMI and children born using IVF or ovulation induction versus without any fertility treatments.

Illinois Outlaws ‘Fertility Fraud’

A new Illinois state law takes effect next year allowing residents to bring a fraud case against health care providers who used their own “human reproductive cells” during treatment without a patient’s consent.

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