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Donald F. Phillips
JAMA contributor

JAMA. 1998;280:1893-1895.

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ENDOCRINOLOGISTS, geneticists, immunologists, biologists, obstetricians and gynecologists, surgeons, nurses, mental health professionals, and epidemiologists presented new data on the latest studies and techniques applied to the field of human reproduction at this fall's joint meeting in San Francisco of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) and the International Federation of Fertility Societies (IFFS).

According to Arthur F. Haney, MD, immediate past president of ASRM, the international meeting featured proportionately less on infertility care and more on other aspects of reproductive medicine because of the input of scientists from outside the United States. Although the medical needs of patients around the world are similar, he noted that great cultural differences affect epidemiology. For example, he said that "women in Japan tend to marry and to become pregnant at a later age than in most other countries. This leads to the world's highest rate of endometriosis."

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