Category: Fertility and Health
Fertility Treatments for Single Women and Same Sex Couples
Starting a family can be even more of a challenge without a partner or in a same sex couple. At Concept Fertility, we are committed to providing exemplary care and...
PTID and the Importance of Therapy During Fertility Treatments
Infertility is stressful for the majority of couples – the combination of wanting to be parents with sometimes intense hormonal changes, treatment schedules, and financial pressures, can make conception attempts...
What Causes Age-Related Infertility?
Female age is one of the most important factors to consider when making an infertility diagnosis and suggesting treatments. The deterioration in both egg quantity and quality make it significantly...
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...
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...
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....
Fertility in the UK
Between the ages of 35 and 40, a woman’s fertility quickly declines and one in every six couples seek the help of a fertility specialist. We have put together some...
Contraceptive Pill for Men on the Horizon?
Scientists believe they are closer than ever to creating birth control pills for men, after years of attempts and failures trying to create a male pill that can rival the...
Increasing Fertility: Does Aspirin Boost Fertility?
According to a recent US study at The National Institute of Child Health and Development in Maryland, USA low dose aspirin could improve pregnancy rates in some women due to...
New Mathematical Model Shows When to Start Trying for a Family
Researchers have created a computational model that determines when women should start trying to conceive for different family sizes. The paper, ‘Realizing a desired family size: when should couples...
20% of Variation in BMI is Down to Genetics
As obesity rates rise throughout the west, researchers are struggling to find the reason behind the change and discover how it can be curbed. A recent meta-analysis of 200,000...
