The Management of Infertility

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Abstract
The proportion of women in the United States who think they have a fertility problem increased from 5.7 percent in 1988 to 7.7 percent in 1995.1 This growing perception of infertility is likely to be related to improvements in assisted reproductive technology, including the growing number of fertility services that compete for couples as clients, and the widespread availability of information about fertility issues. Assisted reproductive technology includes many options nowadays, and the marketing of it has created the public perception that fertility interventions can make all the difference between having a baby in a relatively short period and being . . .