The forgotten men: rising rates of male infertility urgently require new approaches for its prevention, diagnosis and treatment

Vardit Ravitsky¹, Sarah Kimmins^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
² Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
³ Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Vardit Ravitsky et al. Biol Reprod. 2019.

. 2019 Nov 21;101(5):872-874.

doi: 10.1093/biolre/ioz161.

Vardit Ravitsky¹, Sarah Kimmins^{2

3}

¹ Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
² Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
³ Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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