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CDC: US Birth Rate Falls to Historic Low

The U.S. birth rate has hit a fresh low, and experts say the poor economy is probably the romance-killing culprit responsible for the decline. Fresh numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show the nation’s fertility rate slumped to a record low in 2012, with 63.0 births per 1,000 women of childbearing years. That beat the previous all-time low of 63.2 in 2011.

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Abandoned Embryos: Clinics Ethically Free to Dispose of Thousands of Embryos Frozen in Time, Doctors’ Group Says

It is the most emotionally charged issue in assisted baby-making: how to “dispose” of the thousands of human embryos that sit frozen in time in fertility clinics across Canada, believed abandoned by the couples that created them.

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Finding the Super Sperm in Infertile Men

A NEW technique to identify “super sperm swimmers” has given couples struggling to fall pregnant an Olympic-sized boost. The number of couples resorting to donor sperm has dropped around 30 per cent over the last seven years as a result of the technique, a fertility clinic has claimed.

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Fertility Diary: Hope Springs Eternal

My new fertility clinic looks like a spa: It is white and airy, with serene Muzak playing at a tasteful volume in the background. As Solomon, my husband, and I enter, we see a table offering coffee and cake, and in the center of the gray leather couches and tan chairs, a giant, mesmerizing fish tank, as if to remind us of the cycle of life (I guess they couldn’t keep rabbits).