With the use of hormone-altering chemicals and many other factors, infertility rates are on the rise, with the global incidence of 10-15%. Many may assume that this is a ‘women issue’ since all injections and tests are performed on a women’s body, but frankly, male factor infertility accounts for 40% of the cases.1 That is … Continued
A new Daily Mail article highlights the dramatic increase in IVF amongst UK women within the last decade: treatment cycles with frozen eggs increased from 410 in 2012 1,462 in 2017. The National Health System currently imposes a time limit of ten years for women to store their eggs (excluding cancer patients and prematurely infertile women) – after that, the eggs must be used for fertility or they will be destroyed. Amending the policy could allow women to exercise … Continued