In the UK, more aspiring parents choose to establish a family on their own. High costs lead many to receive fertility treatments abroad. Harriet is one of them, and she got pregnant with the help of a Danish fertility clinic. Busy weekdays can be a barrier to meeting the one you want to start a […]
Hope and female choice at the heart of a striking Fertility Trends 2021 report, but too many fertility patients are paying for their own medical care; says UK’s national fertility charity, Fertility Network UK, in response to the HFEA’s 2021 Fertility Trends report. Dr Catherine Hill, interim chief executive of Fertility Network UK, said: ‘Hope […]
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Promoting sleep and enhancing mood without cannabis: While we often feel we have to use drugs and medicines to help us rest and sleep, we actually have all we need inside us. Our bodies have a natural ability to rest and restore, but when we don’t know how to tap into it, we turn to […]
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Diabetes medication offers fertility hope: Researchers may have found a solution to improving fertility in women with obesity, following a successful trial in mice using diabetes medication to reduce blood glucose levels. The University of Queensland study found the common type 2 diabetes medication, Dapagliflozin, altered reproductive hormones in obese mice, and could be the […]
Fertility Network responds to HFEA’s Covid report: The HFEA is the UK’s independent regulator overseeing the use of gametes and embryos in fertility treatment and research. In 2018, they launched the UK’s first ever national fertility patient survey, which gave the opportunity to anyone who had recently gone through fertility treatment in the UK in […]
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As Endometriosis Awareness Month (March 2022) shines a light globally on the plight of women from puberty to menopause suffering from the condition, consultant rheumatologist Dr Wendy Holden at Sapphire Clinics gives her expert insight into the disease: “In the UK, around 1 in 10 women aged between 25 and 40 are currently living with […]
Growing Families, the global charity which helps intended parents to create and build families through surrogacy or egg/sperm donation, announces a major conference in London. It will bring together fertility experts from around the world with surrogates, donors, intended parents and families sharing their stories. It will take place at 155 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 3YD […]
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Tools developed by the University of Aberdeen which help couples to predict the chances of having a baby following IVF treatment have now been launched in the US. Two calculators – one which calculates the chances of having a baby over one or more complete cycles* of IVF treatment from the point before just starting […]
‘It is a real possibility we won’t be able to have children now because of the delay’. A survey of nearly 400 patients by the charity Fertility Network UK has explored the devastating impact of the COVID pandemic on those waiting for fertility treatment. A majority of respondents (58%) had experienced delays being able to […]
The potential of scorpion venoms to combat the threat of new variants of coronavirus is being explored by scientists from the University of Aberdeen and the University of Suez Canal, Egypt. […]
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