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If you and your partner are having trouble getting pregnant, the first step may be to examine your lifestyle. The everyday decisions you make about how you eat, drink, work, play, and clean can impact your fertility in San Diego and elsewhere. Personal choices—such as drinking alcohol, taking drugs, and overeating—can lower your odds of [...]

Since 1996, US courts have recognized the right of adopted children to know who their biological parents are. As children of parents who used donor eggs come of age, they are fighting for the same rights. A recent, well-rounded National Public Radio article reports both sides of the issue. One woman conceived from donor sperm, [...]

A National Public Radio report titled “A New Openness For Donor Kids About Their Biology” investigates an emerging trend: parents who used donor eggs to conceive want to share the biological facts of life with their children. Donor-egg babies, like adopted children a generation before, used to be kept in the dark about their biological [...]

Infertility is a major concern for many couples, and while the problem has always existed, the last decade has brought more public awareness to the issue. Many celebrities, such as Marcia Cross of Desperate Housewives and Courtney Cox-Arquette of Friends and Cougartown have had struggles with infertility. High profile cases of multiple births—such as the [...]

You wouldn’t normally associate fertility with natural disasters, but we discovered a recent article on the Atlanta Journal-Constitution website that does just that. Atlanta, GA, experienced a crippling ice storm in January, 2011. In October, area hospitals reported a significant increase in the birth rate. More births nine months later. “When the electricity goes out [...]