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fertility

  • Community Health Network's nurses volunteered to staff clinics providing vaccines to the community.
    City Limits: The COVID-19 Vaccine Does Not Affect Fertility
    Bob Zaltsberg
    City Limits will address five commonly offered reasons for not getting vaccinated against COVID-19 this week in a short Q&A series. Today’s question: Does the vaccine threaten fertility, especially among women?
  • A neanderthal skull. ( Dr. Mike Baxter, Wikimedia Commons)
    Neanderthals and Fertility
    Walker Rhea
    Some of us have Neanderthal genes, and there's nothing wrong with that. There's research showing that women with a certain gene variant, or allele, inherited from Neanderthals are more fertile than women without it, and that 15 to 20 percent of women in Europe have it.