July is dedicated to raising awareness of cord blood banking and the benefits of donating or storing for future use and medical research. Cord blood is the blood that is leftover in the umbilical cord and placenta after birth, which contains life-saving stem cells with the potential to treat blood disorders such as leukemia and … Continued
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