Fertility and Sterility
Volume 78, Issue 5 , Pages 943-950 , November 2002

Progress we can be proud of: U.S. trends in assisted reproduction over the first 20 years1

  • James P Toner, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Atlanta Center for Reproductive Medicine, Woodstock, Georgia, USA

Received 19 March 2002 ,Revised 13 June 2002 ,Accepted 13 June 2002.

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Fertility and Sterility
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