Let’s give women the facts about infertility
Last week I was asked to comment on remarks made by Lord Winston to an audience at the Cheltenham Science Festival who said it was a good thing for women to delay having a baby.
First baby born after transplantation of ovarian tissue removed and frozen from the mother during childhood
A young woman has become the first in the world to give birth to a healthy child after a team in Brussels restored her fertility by transplanting ovarian tissue that had been removed and frozen while she was a child.
Be cautious about new technology
On Friday a company called OvaScience reported the “first baby to be born with IVF that uses stem cells to pep up old eggs”. To quote the New Scientist “He has been called the world’s first stem cell baby. Zain Rajani was born three weeks ago in Canada after his parents opted for a new […]
Trip Advisor Debate @RCOG run by Progress Educational Trust
It was a pleasure to Chair the Trip Advisor Debate at the RCOG on April 29th run by Progress Educational Trust. We work in one of the most highly regulated areas of reproductive medicine and the HFEA collects and publishes data on our success rates and other outcomes.
Good news to start the week
It gave me great pleasure this week to hear good news from two couples recently. One couple brought in their 11 week-old baby daughter, who was conceived after a couple of years under my care. Treatment included some quite exacting surgery to correct problems within the uterus. The surgery is extremely specialised and is only […]
Fertility 2015
There was a wonderful feeling of excitement at the Fertility 2015 Meeting that took place in Birmingham just after New Year. Once again, this three-day meeting brought together scientists, nurses, counsellors and clinicians, combining the efforts of the three main fertility societies in the UK, namely the British Fertility Society (BFS), the Association of Clinical […]