"A lot of things, many things maybe in cups, in ointment containers, " Dr. Salim Abu Khaizaran, the head of the fertility center, says while describing the methods used by the prisoners.

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But among the labs Merck is shuttering are the Newhouse, Scotland, operation that invented both Saphris and sugammadex and the Oss, Netherlands, site that Schering had kept as the center of its fertility drug business.

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According to the Center for Disease Control, 7.3 million people in the U.S. suffer fertility problems.

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