Fertility procedures, birth defects linked

Courtesy Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Health and Fitness  Mon, 11/17/2008 - 23:24

Infants conceived with techniques commonly used in fertility clinics are two to four times more likely to have certain birth defects than are infants conceived naturally, a new study has found.


 

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