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This week’s hot topic: Birth rates are collapsing – can IVF help?

By Stephen Adams  Birth rates are collapsing.  This week, it was the turn of England and Wales’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) to report that the fertility rate has dropped to just 1.44 children per woman – the lowest rate since records began in 1938 (1). The replacement rate is 2.08.  This isn’t unique. Birth […]