SCIENCE journalists like to think that news is their métier, for what
could be newer than the latest discovery? But I can’t help noticing that, just
like flu epidemics, troublesome old stories return to haunt us.
Take the report published in Britain last month by the Royal College of
Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. It warned that the number of women having
multiple births after fertility treatment is unacceptably high. Now where have I
heard that before?
Exactly a decade ago, Â鶹´«Ã½ highlighted the startling outcome of
promising new fertility treatments. Women who took these routes to motherhood
were sometimes…
