The hormone injections used to induce livestock and women to ovulate may force some eggs to leave ovarian follicles too early to begin and maintain a successful pregnancy, a new study reports. This finding, made in beef cattle, may explain why women who receive this type of fertility treatment have lower pregnancy and birth rates than do women who ovulate on their own.
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