July 22, 2011
Infertility is often a problem mostly associated with women but a new studyhas just uncovered a genetic mutation in men that lowers their partners’ chances of giving birth by 30 percent. Researchers from the University of California, Davis have found that around one in every 250 men has a genetic mutation that stops the production ...
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January 20, 2011
Men who take vitamin and antioxidant supplements have a better chance of getting their partner pregnant or have a live birth than men who don’t. Researchers looked at more than 1,000 couples at fertility clinics and found that those men who were having problems with subfertility did better if they took these supplements. Wow, what a surprise! The ...
August 4, 2010
Dear Madame X, I’ve heard that putting Tabasco sauce in used condoms is a good way to avoid them being used by the girl afterward to get pregnant. I’ve been doing this for years but when I mentioned it to friend he said it as just an old wives tale. Does it work? What can ...
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January 30, 2010
You’re a bad mother. No kids? That’s why. A new study has come out informing working women that having a baby over the age of 30 is practically a miraculous event, and that having kids over 40 is actually evidence of the Rapture.