You Can Still Be Healthy With A High B.M.I. Yet Many Fertility Clinics Close Door On Obese Women

Does it make sense, medically or ethically, when fertility clinics refuse to treat prospective mothers they consider too large? One woman was treated coldly at a clinic and told she was too fat to get pregnant. "Have more sex and lose the weight,'' the technician said to her. In other public health news: murders of black transgender women, sleeping without drugs, eating expired foods, shortage of geriatricians, lessons on modern technology, living after cardiac arrest and obesity's ties to prostate cancer.

from Kaiser Health News http://bit.ly/2XUWSYV