Archive for tag 'Research'. Page 1 of 1

• 21st
  Oct
  2011

  Do we finally have the answer to recurrent miscarriages?

  New research may have revealed why some women have recurrent miscarriages and others  can’t get pregnant at all.

  Scientists have identified a protein – SGK1 – which if the levels in the body are too high causes infertility, and if too low can cause miscarriage.

  The team from Imperial College London took samples from over 100 women and those with unexplained infertility had high levels of SGK1, whilst those who miscarried had low levels.

  The discovery of this protein is ...

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• 8th
  Mar
  2010

  When is the right time to tell a donor conceived child where they came from?

  If you need the help of donor sperm or a donor egg to have a baby, then one day you’re going to be faced with telling your children how they came to be born. It’s one of the many things we discuss with our patients during their counselling sessions. It’s not an easy question to answer. Is it a matter of choosing the ‘right age’ to tell them, so they will understand? Or is it a case of the sooner the better?...

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