Fertility Drugs

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Fertility Drugs Multiple Births
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Fertility Drugs

• Clomiphene citrate
• Gonadotropins
• Puregon

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How Clomiphene Citrate Works
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increase of Clomephine Citrate used by Women
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Side Effects

• Blurring vision
• Ovarian enlargement
• Hot flashes
• Insomnia
• Irritability

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• Only a small number, 6 experience multiple
  births
• This number however, is only valid when the only
  drug being taken is Citrate

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Gonadotropins
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Gonadotropins
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Gonadotropins

• Demand
• Supply

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Demand

• Has grown 100 fold in the last five years
• This is do to the escalating number of IVFs
  being performed

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Supply

• Hard to get
• Need a large amount of human urine
• New ways are being researched on producing the
  drug

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Puregon
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What Is Puregon?

• A new fertility drug an the market
• The very first drug to use DNA technology
• It increases chance of pregnancy 25 in IFV cases
• Is more than 99 pure

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Reported Pregnancies due to the use of Puregon
In Canada
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How Are All These Related?

• Clomephine Citrate
• Gonadotropins
• Puregon

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• Naturally occur in less than 8 of people
• Twins are the most common
• When twins are born 35 of them are maternal
  (identical), 65 are fraternal
• Most born at once was octuplets

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How Do Multiple Births Occur?

• When more than one egg is fertilized at a time
• In the case of identical babies one egg is
  fertilized and than splits during early
  development

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How are Fertility Drugs and Multiple Births
Related?

• Fertility drugs are used to release more than one
  egg during ovulation
• Greater chance for more than one egg to become
  fertilized