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...having remarried, Drake began trying for baby No. 3. She tried for three years, with no luck. At 30, she was diagnosed with premature menopause and, in an odd twist of fate, had to undergo fertility treatment to have her third child. It struck her as particularly curious, since her identical twin sister never had any fertility problems. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...studied, in large part because the high cost of studies doesn't "seem justified in terms of what the possible risks [of the procedure] might be," according to Sean Tipton, spokesman for the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM). He points out that egg donors undergo the same drug treatment as IVF patients - hormone injections and other drugs that stimulate follicles, promote egg maturation and prevent the release of eggs before they can be retrieved - and that studies of the latter population show it is safe...
...study compared outcomes of treatments during two periods at the university's fertility clinic: between 1995 and 1999, when double-embryo transfer was used much more commonly than single-embryo transfer, which was performed for just 4.2% of cases; and between 2000 and 2004, when 46.2% of women opted for elective single-embryo transfer. (The increase in single-embryo transfers reflects, in part, changing attitudes in Europe toward using multiple embryos.) In both time periods, the study found, 90% of women delivered babies within their first four treatment cycles, regardless of how many embryos were implanted. That suggests there...
...obesity rates among youth in the United States. But removing combo meals from daily lunches is certainly a step in the right direction. Several surgeons general in the last century took an aggressive stance on smoking; obesity is a similar major public health hazard and thus deserves a similar treatment. Helping students opt for cafeteria salads over chicken nuggets is an excellent place to start...
...register NGOs. The draft also envisions a government that can pry more directly into the internal management of NGOs. Baghdad will also have discretionary power to either grant additional privileges or remove an organization's benefits and rights, a provision that NGOs fear could handicap critics and enshrine preferential treatment for those toeing a certain line. (See pictures of NGOs fighting blindness around the world...