fertility

Samantha Ruth Prabhu prays for loyal and loving partner, fertility and more post Naga Chaitanya’s second marriage with Sobhita Dhulipala |

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Samantha Ruth Prabhu prays for loyal and loving partner, fertility and more post Naga Chaitanya’s second marriage with Sobhita Dhulipala |

Despite a challenging year, including the loss of her father and her ex-husband Naga Chaitanya remarrying Sobhita Dhulipala, Samantha Ruth Prabhu continues to radiate positivity.Samantha Ruth Prabhu recently shared a post on her Instagram, predicting what 2025 holds for the zodiac signs Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn. Check out the post here: According to the forecast, … Read more

Chinese government workers call up women to urge pregnancy in latest birth rate push

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Chinese government workers call up women to urge pregnancy in latest birth rate push

Chinese grass roots government workers, who implemented decades of birth control policy, are now calling up women in their neighbourhood to urge them to get pregnant amid China’s demographic crisis. When Jane Huang picked up the phone to answer a call earlier this month, her first response to the person on the end was to … Read more

What do we know about how female bodies deal with heat?

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What do we know about how female bodies deal with heat?

White Coat Black Art26:30Hot as hell Britnee Miazek didn’t immediately make the connection between her periods stopping and her job as a second-year ironworker apprentice in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.  It was only after a three-month stint in 2023 working on top of the coke ovens used in the steel-making process that the 35-year-old began to notice a pattern.  “As … Read more

Could rat birth control work in Ottawa?

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Could rat birth control work in Ottawa?

For rats in Ottawa’s Heron Park neighbourhood, Melanie Giroux has become something like the Grim Reaper. Giroux estimates she’s trapped and killed many hundreds of the rodents since her backyard became infested in 2021. That year alone, she bagged nearly 500 using black reusable traps. Despite that prolific record, Giroux said it hasn’t gotten any easier. “You … Read more

Woman lays bare the perils of living in the world’s COLDEST city where temperatures plummet as low as -83F – from aging faster to suffering extreme frostbite

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Woman lays bare the perils of living in the world’s COLDEST city where temperatures plummet as low as -83F – from aging faster to suffering extreme frostbite

A young woman living in the world’s coldest city has revealed some of the negative impacts the extreme cold has on the body – along with months of very little sunlight.  YouTube creator Kiun B lives in the Siberian city of Yakutsk, where the temperatures have been known to plunge below -83.9F (-64.4C) in the winter and … Read more

Inside heartwarming story of the world’s first ‘test-tube baby’ Louise Brown – the birth that changed the world

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Inside heartwarming story of the world’s first ‘test-tube baby’ Louise Brown – the birth that changed the world

ON July 25, 1978, the world’s media were camped out in Oldham, Greater Manchester, for what had been dubbed “the most awaited birth in perhaps 2000 years”. So crazed were the paparazzi in their pursuit of a picture of the newborn that they triggered a bomb scare, leading to the evacuation of Oldham General Hospital’s … Read more

Deep Dive Podcast: Why incentives aren’t working for falling fertility rates

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Deep Dive Podcast: Why incentives aren’t working for falling fertility rates

Singapore’s total fertility rate has fallen to a historic low of 0.97. Citizens aren’t having enough children to sustain population numbers and all the money spent to encourage procreation doesn’t seem to work. Steven Chia and Crispina Robert talk about what’s causing the decline with Dr Norman Li, psychology professor at the Singapore Management University, … Read more

Report: 91% of new mothers still struggle with returning to work

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Report: 91% of new mothers still struggle with returning to work

Family-building support and fertility benefits have become some of the most sought-after perks for millennial workers. As those benefits have started influencing retention and driving workers to seek out new jobs, employers have taken notice—so it’s no surprise that benefits providers like Carrot are seeing companies invest more deeply in these offerings. Even as more … Read more

Alabama IVF ruling highlights importance of state supreme court races in this year’s U.S. elections

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Alabama IVF ruling highlights importance of state supreme court races in this year’s U.S. elections

CHICAGO — The recent ruling in Alabama that frozen embryos are legally considered children created a political firestorm after the decision halted treatment for many couples seeking to have families through fertility treatments. It also has turned the spotlight on the importance of institutions that are poised to play a central in this year’s elections: … Read more

South Korea’s fertility rate dropped to fresh record low in 2023

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South Korea’s fertility rate dropped to fresh record low in 2023

SEOUL: South Korea’s fertility rate, already the world’s lowest, dropped to a fresh record low in 2023, defying the billions of dollars spent by the country to try to reverse the trend as the population shrank for a fourth straight year. The average number of expected babies for a South Korean woman during her reproductive … Read more