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BPA Exposure Could Increase Risk of Infertility

About 20 percent of infertile couples in the U.S. have some unexplainable reason for their lack of ability to reproduce. A new study by Catherine Racowsky, PhD, director of the Assisted Reproductive Technologies Laboratory at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), recently showed that, exposure to BPA could have affected their reproduction system.

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New Law in France Loosens Restrictions on Human Embryo

The French National Assembly yesterday approved a new law that aims to ease regulation of research involving human embryos and embryonic stem cells. Although French researchers say that the shift will bring little immediate change to their day-to-day work, they hope that the new law will bring more academic freedom and collaboration.

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Birth Rates in N.J. Shore Towns Jump Nine Months After Hurricane Sandy, Study Finds

An analysis by the Asbury Park Press found that births at shore-area hospitals this month — nine months after Hurricane Sandy struck the coast — showed a significant increase year over year that doesn’t surprise some experts in post-storm fertility. (Yes, there are professionals that study that.)

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Infertility Struggles Brings Sisters Together

Johnston and her husband Joby tried fertility treatments, including in vitro fertilization twice. Still, after years of trying, the loving, young couple was childless. Annie hadn’t even had one positive pregnancy test in all the years she had been trying to conceive. …Annie didn’t have the baby she had hoped for, but she did have an older sister to turn to who had watched Annie struggle through infertility.