Health & Fertility
Learn how diet, exercise, stress, and lifestyle choices affect your fertility, with practical steps to optimise your health before trying to conceive.
Can Chemotherapy Affect Fertility?
The side-effects of receiving chemotherapy can be extremely wide and variable between patients leaving many with severe reactions and sickness whilst others...
Can You Eat Yourself Fertile?
If it were as easy as this, infertility would not be the problem that it is. However, having said that, the food that you eat does affect fertility, whether...
Diabetes & Male Fertility
There are many reasons why a man might find he has problems with fertility but not many realise that other aspects of their health can contribute to this pro...
Endometriosis
Up to one in 10 women suffer from the condition endometriosis and if you’re trying for a baby, it sadly could affect your chances of getting pregnant. Endo...
Ethics of Egg Donation
When a couple undergoes In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF), her body is stimulated to produce many eggs that can then be fused with her partners sperm to create us...
Female Symptoms of Fertility Issues
Infertility in both males and females, is defined as inability to conceive after 1 year of regular, unprotected intercourse. There can be several causes for...
Fertility Drugs and Cancer
Treating infertility in women involves using drugs to control ovulation. Women who are found to be infertile because they produce eggs only infrequently and...
Fibroids of the Uterus
Fibroids or Leiomyoma Uteri, as it is often referred within in the medical community, are benign non cancerous tumours of the uterus. They occur mostly in wo...
General Medical Problems That Can Lead to Infertility
There are many different reasons as to why Infertility may be a problem for a couple when they are trying for a child most of them deeply rooted in previous...
How Body Weight Can Affect Your Fertility
When couples decide to get pregnant, the process seems easy and natural. Unfortunately, around one in six couples experience problems with their fertility at...
Hydrocele and Varicocele
What is a Hydrocele? A Hydrocele is a build-up of liquid within the mucous membrane of the scrotum and is something that – for most men – will not cause...
Male Symptoms of Fertility Issues
Male fertility is one of the most common causes of infertility accounting for nearly 1/3 of the cases. For couples facing problems with fertility, it is just...
Obesity and Male Fertility
It is well known that being overweight or being clinically obese can have an adverse impact on a woman’s fertility. However, until very recently no researc...
Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is a condition commonly found in young females and is especially common among people of African origin. If you are young a...
Pregnancy Test Technology: What's New?
When a woman thinks she might be pregnant, she wants to know as early as possible. This has been true since prehistory. In the time of ancient Egypt, written...
Sexually Transmitted Infections
Sexually transmitted infections (or STIs) can have serious affects on your health, plus some can also damage your fertility. In some cases, they remain undia...