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Archive for tag 'Treatment'. Page 2 of 2

  • 7th
    Sep
    2010

    What is IUI?

    IUI, or intrauterine insemination, is a common infertility treatment that can help couples conceive. It is often the first treatment to be recommended when couples have ‘unexplained infertility’ – that is no medical reason why they cannot get pregnant...

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  • 1st
    Sep
    2010

    IVF funding cuts - saving money at infertility's expense

    In recent weeks both the Isle of Man and Warrington Primary Care Trust have announced cuts in their funding of infertility treatment.

    The Isle of Man government has slashed its budget for infertility treatment by half, and infertile couples now have to meet much stricter criteria to even be considered for the one cycle of IVF that the Manx Government will pay for. This includes being in a stable relationship, non-smoking, not overweight, within certain age limits and infertile for at least thre...

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  • 12th
    Apr
    2010

    Struggling to have a second baby? You may have secondary infertility

    If you’ve already had a healthy baby, and are looking to have another child, it’s natural to assume that you’ll get pregnant with no problems, just as you did before. However, did you know that infertility can strike even when you’ve successfully conceived before? Being unable to get pregnant again, even if you’ve already got a child, is called secondary infertility...

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  • 6th
    Apr
    2010

    Celebrity Older Mums - how did they conceive?

    What do Hollywood actresses Halle Berry, Marcia Cross, Susan Sarandon, Courtney Cox and Holly Hunter all have in common? They had children in their 40s, some of them in their late 40s. But what they don’t tell you is that in most cases, women who do have children at this age aren’t getting pregnant ‘naturally’, or even through IVF. They’re having to use a donor egg. Marcia Cross, of TV's Desperate Housewives, recently revealed that a donor egg was how she managed to finally have child...

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  • 1st
    Mar
    2010

    Common types of Fertility Problems - what might be stopping you getting pregnant

    At Manchester Fertility Services we see over 850 new patients a year. And each one of them will have differing medical reasons why they need infertility treatment. So what might be stopping you getting pregnant? Here are some of the most common fertility problems we see and treat. Remember that no obvious reason may be found to account for the delay in at least 1:3 couples (called “unexplained infertility”)...

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  • 25th
    Feb
    2010

    ICSI Timebomb? Are IVF/ICSI babies more at risk of infertility, obesity and diabetes?

    Many of my patients are only too aware of the emotional and physical toll infertility treatment has. So the thought that they may have passed on their infertility to any children born as a result of their treatment is understandably distressing. The very creator of the ICSI procedure, Dr Andre van Steirteghem, told a conference this week that children born through ICSI – which is where a single sperm is injected into to the egg, rather than it being mixed in a dish as per a standard IVF proce...

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  • 3rd
    Feb
    2010

    How to get IVF treatment on the NHS - will your Local Authority pay?

    Anyone who has ever sought NHS-funded fertility treatment will tell you that it’s often down to where you live – not your fertility problem – that dictates whether you get IVF. Treatment for infertility varies widely across the country. In the present economic crisis, few Primary Care Trusts in England will offer the recommended three cycles of IVF on the NHS – others don’t offer any at all.

    Last year, MP Grant Shapps said a ‘postcode IVF lottery’ operates, which not only depen...

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