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Celebrities Are Coming Out for This Neglected Health Issue

Supermodel, author and “Top Chef” co-host Padma Lakshmi was diagnosed with endometriosis at the age of 36 — too late, she said, to save her marriage to author Salman Rushdie, and too late to avoid many personal and professional repercussions caused by a disease that often eludes diagnosis.

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Baby Boy Gets Guinness World Record After Conception from World’s Oldest Sperm

A baby boy was born in June of 2015 after being conceived from the world’s oldest sperm. His dad gave the sperm specimen 23 years ago at the age of 15, after receiving a cancer diagnosis and being advised his treatment could make him infertile. After a successful conception from what became the world’s oldest sperm, his new baby made it into the Guinness Book of World Records.

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Intel Quadruples Fertility Benefit

Intel is the latest company to beef up its benefits for parents—and employees who want to become parents.The company announced that, beginning in January 2016, it will quadruple fertility benefits for U.S. employees, going from a lifetime cap of $10,000 for fertility services and $5,000 for related prescription drugs to a $40,000 cap on services and $20,000 for medication. The new policy will also remove the requirement that employees get a medical diagnosis to access the benefits, which has been an impediment for some same-sex couples.

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Making The Case For Employee-Covered Fertility Treatments

In 2013, Katie Lelito was a graduate student and research assistant at the University of Michigan. She and her husband were ready to start a family, but months of trying brought no success. Tests lead to an infertility diagnosis and one possible solution for conception: in vitro fertilization (IVF).

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Join The March To Help Raise Awareness About Endometriosis

March is Endometriosis Awareness Month, and Chandelis Duster and Dr. Marlene Dookhan, OB/GYN and Laparoscopic Surgeon, stopped by the studio to talk about diagnosis, symptoms, and treatment for Endometriosis, as well as the support group Yellow HOPE. Chandelis, Virginia Precinct Manager for Worldwide Endometriosis March and Co-Founder of Yellow HOPE, shared her story after being diagnosed with the disease.

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Out of a Struggle With Infertility, Success

“I said, ‘This is what’s wrong with me,’ ” Mr. Johnson recalled telling Ms. Perlman of his diagnosis of Kallmann syndrome, a hormonal disorder that caused delayed puberty and infertility. “When I was a teenager, I was on testosterone therapy, every day, 365 days a year. The doctor had told me at age 13: ‘You’re sterile. Forget about it.’ ”