Medicine: For a More Perfect Union

One U.S. couple in seven is childless, yet in most cases they want children. Why can't they have them? Last week a recently opened clinic in Cleveland, one of 38 in the U.S., was trying to find the answer.

At the Maternal Health Association's new "Fertility Clinic"—a project of Cleveland's famed Brush Foundation which brings together previously scattered services—an internist, endocrinologist, urologist, gynecologist, nutritionist and psychiatrist have joined in a many-sided attack on the problem. To the young married couples who come to the clinic, they give thorough physical and mental examinations, prescribe...

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