Fertility
Making Babies, Pushing Boundaries: The Great Greek Fertility Market
She had come to Athens in her teens and found a scene to suit her tastes in scruffy-but-trendy Gazi district. She styled herself as a punk and, with her cropped hair and soft features, could have passed for a beautiful boy playing at being a girl, or vice versa. As a kid, growing up in Bulgaria, she had a thing for toy soldiers.
Europe’s Demographic Dip is a Challenge – Not a Disaster
Data compiled by Tomas Sobotka, a leading demographer, show that birth rates in Europe have shown signs of recovery in the last few months. Whether or not this trend continues will depend on how lasting the social and economic impacts of the pandemic will be.
Fertility Conference cancelled following outcry over alleged sexist TV spot (watch 'controversial' video)
The spot presented scientific facts about the lowering of fertility rates as women get older
Study: Women who choose abortion are still miserable
About 50% said they believed the fetus was a human being when they aborted…
Birth rate declining in Turkey: Report
A recent report by Turkey's statistical authority has revealed a trend of declining birth rates in the country.
Nearly 1.12 million new births were registered in 2020, down from 1.18 million the year before, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) announced on May 18.
According to TÜİK, 51.3 percent of babies born last year were boys, while 48.7 percent were girls.
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China posts slowest population growth in decades
China's population has grown at its slowest pace in decades, reaching 1.41 billion, census results showed on May 11, highlighting fears of a looming crisis over an ageing society.
The growth of 5.4 percent was the slowest since the 1960s, due in part to falling birthrates and a sharp drop in the number of working-age people.
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Palestinian prisoner smuggled sperm out of jail – Jerusalem Post
“He managed to achieve the joy of the birth of two of them from inside the prison by smuggling sperm [out of prison],” the PA’s TV show proudly announced
"Coronavirus threatens to destroy humanity even after we eradicate it"
Researchers from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan call for urgent research into the long-term effects of COVID-19 infection on male fertility due to the abundant evidence of reduced sperm motility, fewer sperm and testicular damage, claiming the virus threatens to destroy humanity after the pandemic is over.
The Minister presented a startling fact: Serbs are dying VIDEO
He was a hosted on TV Prva, in the morning program, and stated that about 17.000 citizens of Serbia died in December alone.
"A city the size of Sabac disappeared, it didn't look like that two or three months ago, but in December there was a terrible leap in the number of deaths. And that is an increase compared to 2019 by 15 percent," said Dmitrovi.
Sperm fooled scientists for 350 years – they spin not swim
Sperm was first discovered in 1677 but it took roughly 200 years before scientists agreed on how humans are actually formed