Fertility and Sterility
Volume 90, Issue 3 , Pages 564-568 , September 2008

Support for selling embryos among infertility patients

  • Tarun Jain, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Illinois Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Tarun Jain, M.D., Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, University of Illinois at Chicago, 820 South Wood Street, M/C 808, Chicago, IL 60612 (FAX: 312-996-4238).
    • ,
  • Stacey A. Missmer, Sc.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
    • Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
    • Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts

Received 3 May 2007 ,Revised 27 June 2007 ,Accepted 27 June 2007.

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PII: S0015-0282(07)01544-0

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.06.101

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 90, Issue 3 , Pages 564-568 , September 2008

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