WHAT'S NEW CHE Fertility Call MP3 now available -- Looking Forward: Chemical Impacts to Future Generations Proceedings from the 2007 UCSF-CHE Summit on Environmental Challenges to Reproductive Health and Fertility are now available (published in Fertility & Sterility) Check out these new Community Resources!  Recent articles Sex Education: A Primer on Chemicals, Fertility and Reproduction, Grist, September 2007. An Inconceivable Truth: The Link Between Infertility and the Environment, Vogue, August 2007. Health Professionals - Register now for UCSF CME Courses BROWSE the CHE Fertility Online Library, a searchable online database that includes news articles, scientific abstracts, and organizational reports on fertility and pregnancy compromise and environmental factors. View the latest six articles below. 10 May Diabetes in pregnancy is on the rise. Having poorly controlled diabetes while pregnant can cause all sorts of harm, from stillbirths and miscarriages to birth defects. So experts are concerned that the number of women who already have diabetes by the time they conceive is rising rapidly. US News & World Report. 10 May Weighing blood sugar's pregnancy role. Blood-sugar levels far lower than previously thought to be worrisome in pregnancy increase the chances of problems such as high-birth-weight babies and the increased need for Caesarean sections, researchers found. Wall Street Journal. 8 May For prospective moms, biology and culture clash. More than a third of first-time moms in the U.S. are over 30 when they have their first child. And the older a woman becomes, the harder it is for her to conceive. Morning Edition. 8 May Asthma drugs help to prevent birth defects. Women who have an asthma attack during the first three months of pregnancy put their babies at a greater risk of birth defects than asthmatic mothers who did not have a flare-up during that period, a new Canadian study shows. Toronto Globe and Mail. 7 May How boys become boys (and sometimes girls). In research that could give doctors a way to reassign sex in cases of ambiguous genetalia, scientists report this week that they have figured out why some children with genes that should make them boys are instead born as girls. Scientific American. 7 May Plastic baby bottles could contain 'gender bending' chemicals. Parents could be putting their children at risk by using baby bottles made with 'gender-bending' chemicals, a charity warned yesterday. Daily Mail. More news...

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