Year: 2017
Can Diet Improve Fertility?
One of the most common questions we are asked by patients is whether they can change their diet or add supplements to improve their chances of conceiving. The answer is...
How Many Cycles of IVF Do Patients Need?
Should Patients Plan for Several IVF Cycles or 1 Really Complicated One? Roughly 3.5 million people in the UK have difficulty with conceiving a child, equating to one in seven...
How Does the Thyroid Gland Affect Fertility?
The thyroid gland is shaped like a butterfly, sitting low on the front of your neck. The hormones secreted by the thyroid gland influence factors such as metabolism, growth and...
Scientists Have Created Mouse Embryos From Stem Cells
This is a story that has been reported by the BBC earlier in March and refers to the creation of embryos from stem cells. It is related to the ongoing...
Stress and Fertility
Don’t be too hopeful for starting a family if you are shift worker and the clocks have just gone forward for British Summer Time, at least according to a couple...
3-Parent Babies: What Does This Mean?
Babies are now being born after mitochondrial donation Doctors in the Ukraine recently announced the birth of a baby girl following the use of a technique called pronuclear transfer, which...
How Does Cigarette Smoke Affect Male Fertility?
Smoking Reduces Fertility In The Next Generation For decades, smoking cigarettes has been heavily linked to foetal abnormalities. This is common knowledge but a new link has recently been discovered....
How Long Should We Keep Embryos Alive in Laboratories?
Why produce embryos at all? Embryos are produced in In-Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) laboratories from eggs and sperm and are transplanted into the wombs (uterus’s) of their mothers a few days...
