reproductive health
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Why Don’t More People Donate Their Eggs or Sperm?
The demand for donor eggs and sperm outstrips supply in Australia. To find out what can make donor recruitment more successful, we surveyed 1,000 people about whether they had ever donated gametes (eggs or sperm) and if they hadn’t, we asked for the reasons why. Only eight people had donated their gametes. Of those who…
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What to Say When Someone Asks Why You Don’t Have Kids
1During a recent interview, Dolly Parton found herself answering a question that she has been asked countless times over several decades: Why doesn’t she have children? Sure, she has written more than 3,000 songs, provided nearly 150 million books for children through her Imagination Library, and recently helped fund research that contributed to the development…
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What to Expect When You Get a Vasectomy
If you are fertile and have a functioning penis and testicles and are 100 per cent sure that you don’t want to use them to make any babies in the future, a vasectomy is definitely the way to go. Traditionally, the onus for preventing unwanted pregnancies has fallen on the half of the population with…
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Should You Get Your Vaginal Microbiome Analysed?
The bacteria and other microbes that live in the vagina are hugely important to our health, but (like the microbes in other parts of the body) they’re not very well understood. Now, a company is offering free vaginal microbiome reports to women who join their study.