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 Pregnancy Information - August 28, 2008
| The federal government is deciding whether it will continue to fund abstinence only education in schools since the CDC released findings this year that one in four girls has a sexually transmitted disease. Another reason some feel abstinence only programs do not work is that the U.S has one of the highest rates of teen pregnancy in developed countries, at about 750,000 a year | | A Chicago fertility laboratory claims to have developed a test to measure how many fertile eggs a woman has. The test kit costs $350. The company marketing the kit, Repromedix, said its target are women who are deciding if they want to have offsprings and want to know their biological limitations | | A Chicago fertility laboratory claims to have developed a test that could measure a woman's ovarian reserve or how many fertile eggs she still has for bearing children. The test kit would cost $350. The company marketing the kit said its target are women who are deciding if they want to have offsprings and wan to know their biological limitations | | A new study by Statistics Canada released Tuesday correlated higher income levels with lesser sleep. The survey said those who earned $60,000 or more annually had 40 minutes lesser winks on any given day than someone who earned only $20,000 per annum. The average sleeping time for females was eight hours and 18 minutes, while males slept 7 minutes less. But there were more women who had sleeping problems compared to men | | Women who are trying to conceive a boy could increase their chances by increasing their calorie intake during the days of conception, a new study has revealed. The researchers, from Oxford and Exeter universities, found that women with the highest calorie intake before conception were more likely to have a boy than women on a low calorie diet | |
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