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Study shows mothers older than 50 do not have reduced parenting capacity

Los Angeles, Oct. 23, 2006 – Mothers who give birth after the age of 50 do not have reduced parenting capacity compared to younger mothers, a study led by the Univ. of North Carolina’s Anne Z. Steiner and Univ. of Southern California’s Richard Paulson has concluded.

Steiner, an assistant professor in the UNC School of Medicine’s department of obstetrics and gynecology,

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USC Fertility’s Richard J. Paulson, M.D. Receives AFA’s Lifetime Achievement Award

LOS ANGELES (November 7, 2005) – Dr. Richard J. Paulson, Director of USC Fertility, the private fertility practice of the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine, is the recipient of the American Fertility Association’s 2005 Howard and Georgeanna Jones Lifetime Achievement Award.

Paulson is to accept the award in person tonight at the AFA’s annual,

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USC Physicians Make Strides in Proving Efficacy of Oocyte Cryopreservation

Keck School of Medicine researchers unveil interim study data at 61st Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine

MONTREAL (October 17, 2005)�Fertility researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles today announced the first findings from their ongoing clinical trial on oocyte cryopreservation.

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Third Physician-Partner Joins USC Fertility

Drs. Richard J. Paulson and John K. Jain welcome new private practice colleague Karine Chung, MD, MS

Los Angeles, August 15, 2005 – USC Fertility is pleased to announce the recent arrival of third partner-physician, Doctor Karine Chung.

Chung joins USC Fertility from the prestigious University of Pennsylvania, where she completed her subspecialty training in reproductive endocrinology and infertility,

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Physicians Report Nation’s First Pregnancy with Triplets through Egg Freezing

Keck School of Medicine researchers are conducting first-of-its-kind study

LOS ANGELES (June 15, 2005)�Fertility researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California have achieved America’s first pregnancy of triplets resulting from frozen eggs.

It is the first triplet pregnancy in the world using a woman’s own frozen eggs.

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