January 19th, 2008
Pennsylvania’s Agricultural Department has finally conceded to our governor , milk producers and marketers and numerous consumer groups and said that they will now allow labels informing consumers whether the milk they intend to buy is produced without artificial growth hormones:
The new standards apply to labeling about rBST, an artificial growth hormone. Only milk […]
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January 14th, 2008
In addition to your daily dose of All the News Your Womb Can Use, there are a few other posts across the B5Media Science and Health channel that might interest those thinking fertile thoughts:
Ruth at Eating Fabulous reminds of of the importance of folic acid and shares a great recipe in one of her latest […]
By Gabrielle -- 5 comments
January 13th, 2008
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January 6th, 2008
Please tell me that I’m not the only one that’s sick of hearing about Harvard’s “The Fertility Diet”?
I’ve been meaning to blog about this for a while, but then other things come up and well, I figured the news was no longer timely and I’d missed the boat. You don’t want old news, right?
Lucky for […]
By Gabrielle -- 1 comment
December 31st, 2007
Ick. I’m afraid so.
I can always count on my pal L. to send me links and action alerts to get me even more riled up than I already am. Here’s one that directly relates to my Blog Action Day post regarding phtalates and plastics and their nasty effects on fertility (among other things).
Among the results […]
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November 26th, 2007
Remember when we learned that there seems to be a connection between deep voices and male fertility? Well, it now seems that there is a correlation between your number of spawn and number of years that you live. At least for men. World War I Draft Registration Cards have just become readily available to the […]
By Gabrielle -- 1 comment
October 15th, 2007
Happy Blog Action Day! Today, 14,815 blogs around the world are focused on one thing: the environment. One day, one issue, thousands of voices. That’s the idea. But the more I look, the more important information I find. Fertility Notes will actually be discussing fertility and environmental factors all this week.
It seems […]
By Gabrielle -- 4 comments
October 6th, 2007
I read this article at least three times to make sure I understood it. And if I do, it seems that a Swedish study finds that although fertility of women with diabetes was below average before 1985, since that date, it has normalized. The study points to “rigorous metabolic control” as the main factor in […]
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October 4th, 2007
[Note: I’ve been waiting to post this because I keep thinking there is a hilarious joke in here someplace - At least a good one-liner. But a week has gone by and I’m stumped. And I don’t want to be responsible for withholding the latest scientific research from you, my readers. So, without further delay….]
Did […]
By Gabrielle -- 2 comments
September 27th, 2007
Earlier this week, researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center identified almost 350 genes that may be connected to female fertility. The study was conducted on mice but according to UT’s assistant professor of pathology, “Ovarian biology is very similar in mice and humans.”
UT’s press release actually ups the infertility percentage from the […]
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