"WASHINGTON -- Dr Linda Giudice has treated thousands of patients over the years with a range of troubling reproductive disorders, and this week, she joined health experts and a young mother in fingering chemicals as the probable cause.

'I have treated thousands of patients... including young men with very abnormal sperm counts or a history of testicular cancer, women as young as 17 and already in the menopause, little girls with the onset of puberty at six or eight,' Giudice told a news conference.

'There is increasing evidence that environmental contaminants may be playing a role in these disorders,' said Giudice, who chairs the department of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at the University of California, San Francisco."

Karin Zeitvogel reports for AFP November 20, 2010. [2]