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Specialists in Nonsurgical Treatment of Neck and Back Pain t98%patient satisfaction t73%PGQBUJFOUTSBUFUIFJSheadache reductionCFUXFFO t73%PGQBUJFOUTSBUFUIFJSuse of medicationsEFDSFBTFE t150%JODSFBTFJOLumbar Extension 30.TUSFOHUI t123%JODSFBTFJOCervical Rotation 30.TUSFOHUI 5 Convenient Twin Cities Locations Edina 952-908-2700 Chanhassen 952-908-2730 Burnsville 952-908-2710 Coon Rapids 952-908-2580 Maplewood 651-777-6507 www.PDRclinics.com Restoring function to patients with chronic neck and back pain. PDR is a designated MSC & provider to most all major insurance plans. M ORE THAN A third of twin births and three-quarters of births of triplets or greater mu lt iples i n t he Un ite d States can be attributed to fertility treatments, according to recent figures published in The New England Journal of Medicine. By comparing data on multiple births from 1962 to 1966, prior to the avail- ability of fertility treatments, with data from 1971 to 2011, Eli Y. Adashi, MD, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Brown University, and his colleagues found that 36 percent of twins and 77 percent of triplets and higher-order births by 2011 resulted from fertility treatment-assisted conception. Since 1998, when physicians were discouraged from implanting three or more embryos, there has been a 29 per- cent decrease in triplet and higher-order births. That reduction occurred in the same period during which transfer of three or more embr yos during in v itro fer tilization (IV F) decreased 70 percent and triplet and higher-order births related to IVF fell 33 percent. In the same period, however, non-IVF procedures resulted in an increasing percentage of those births — rising from 36 percent to 45 percent. ■ — Caitlin Foster High Proportion of Multiple Births Linked to Fertility Treatments + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + THAT'SNEWS 3 0 | Minnesota MD NEWS ■ M D N E W S . CO M

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