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...physician's. In June, just about the time those eight babies began growing inside her womb, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) issued updated guidelines on the number of embryos that should be transferred to a woman's body in the hope they'll implant in the uterus and lead to a live birth. Women under 35 should transfer no more than two embryos, down from the maximum of three recommended in 1998, and women over 40 should attempt no more than five. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...irritated at calls to legislate assisted reproduction. Doctors aren't the problem, he contends; laws are. Some European countries limit the number of embryos transferred, but that doesn't allow for physicians to take into account individual medical histories; generally, the older the patient, the less likely embryos will implant...
...rare event, and all of a sudden, we want to pass laws," says Paulson. "Would we write laws limiting the size of someone's family to six? Would we write laws mandating selective reduction?" he asks, referring to the option of aborting some embryos if a high number successfully implant in the uterus. "Restricting reproductive rights would be a minefield...
...with the provincial parliament, has encountered fierce resistance from local health workers, government officials and church leaders, who say the practice would constitute a human rights violation and do little to address Papua's high infection rate. "Two wrongs do not make a right, and the plan to implant HIV people with microchips is definitely wrong," says Elisabeth Pisani, an epidemiologist and former AIDS researcher in Indonesia. "This sort of nonsense is hardly worth commenting on from a public health point of view, but I think it might give pause for thought to those who are pushing rapid decentralization...
...argued. That's because the Administration has relied too much on tanks, and not enough on steamrollers. More paved roads could be built more quickly if more Afghans were hired to build them. "It's quite true that Taliban use the roads as well, but it's harder to implant an IED on a paved road than it is on a gravel road," Danzig said. Such improvements also could convince Afghan farmers to plant their fields with something other than opium poppies - the taxing of which has been a key source of funds for the Taliban. "You make it possible...