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Elia Roldan had just received a new lab coat with her name embroidered on the pocket. She worked as a dermatological assistant and although her doctor's office was struggling - fewer people are getting Botoxed these days - her boss assured her that everything was fine. But that was a month ago. Now she is at Manhattan's Tompkins Square Park at 2 pm on a Tuesday, tossing an office telephone down a measured runway in the very first, and possibly only, Unemployment Olympics. "It's not like I have anywhere I have to be," she says, "I mean, not anymore...
...studies like this establish only an association, not a cause; fertility doctors note that infertility itself is associated with elevated risks of uterine cancer. "It's hard to say if the cancer was caused by the disease, the treatment of the disease or some combination of the two," says Elizabeth Ginsburg, a fertility doctor and president of the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology...
...nonprofit voluntary registry of egg and sperm donors. It is still unclear who will pay for it, how it will work and what role the ASRM will play in maintaining it, but already industry critics say it's not quite what they had in mind. (Read "The Fertility Doctor Behind the 'Octomom...
...Despite what the most reliable data may suggest, though, the hope of having a child is not one that most infertile patients and even some doctors would care to quantify - or put a price tag on. "Some clinics still have a so-called guarantee that if the patient is not getting pregnant, they get their money back," says Martikainen. "In those cases, of course, the doctor tries to get the patient pregnant at any price...
...find out how to prevent their children from getting drafted. "For some people it works to register at a different address, or stay at a relative's house when the military inspectors come around," says Tatiana Kuznetsova, who runs the Movement, "We always suggest to go to the doctor" who might then be able to find some physical reason to qualify for exemption from service...