Don't skip your flu shots!

Can flu shots help women get pregnant? That is the question being discussed in the top journal Science this week. Professor Sarah Robertson, a world expert on immunology in reproduction from the University of Adelaide, is excited. She has previously warned that the indiscriminate use of corticosteroids in IVF is unsafe and ineffective but she can see how the flu shots may deliver on two fronts: protecting women against the flu and improving their chances to get pregnant.

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