Flame Retardants May Decrease IVF Success

A new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is showing that flame retardants may decrease the likelihood of pregnancy in women undergoing in vitro fertilization.  This is the first study to examine the association between organophosphate flame retardants (PFRs) and reproductive outcomes in women.

Urine samples from 211 women undergoing IVF between 2005 and 2015 at the …

Good article on risks to men’s fertility

I want to call to your attention a very informative article in today's Health Journal section of the Wall Street Journal on surprising risks to men's fertility. This is in additon to the article posted here yesterday on BPA in plastics causing a potential risk.

All these environmental risks may explain why we are seeing so many otherwise healthy men …