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  • Joined: May 21, 2019
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Diet & female infertility: Doctor what should I eat?

Diet & female fertility: doctor, what should I eat (Chiu et al, 2018), is an excellent paper that reviewed the available research (171 references) on dietary factors affecting human fecundity (the capacity to produce offspring). They concluded: Although much work remains, current evidence…

UK Fertility Industry:Exit strategy from lock down

It seems a long time since the middle of March, when the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) & the European Society of Human Reproduction & Embryology (ESHRE) formally advised fertility patients against becoming pregnant as a ‘precautionary measure’ for their own safety during…

All About COVID-19 and Infertility Treatment

Thirty-three patients at Belfast’s Regional Fertility Clinic have had their stimulation injections stopped and their treatment postponed due to concerns surrounding COVID-19. In the UK, clinics are encouraging patients to have telephone or Skype initial and follow-up consultations, as an…

Infertility in the Workplace

An employment tribunal has ruled that a woman was unfairly discriminated against after successful IVF treatment. The employee had taken time off work to undergo fertility treatment, but was not allowed to return to work after she told her employer…

End the IVF Postcode lottery

Unlike the majority of healthcare in the UK, fertility treatment is not routinely ‘free at the point of use’. Just under 70 % of the UK’s IVF clinics are privately owned and almost all of the NHS units offer self-funded…