Surgeons perform UK’s first womb transplant giving women without a uterus hope of giving birth
The team will eventually publish evaluations of their operations for peer review, which will take several years, before looking at whether a permanent programme is sustainable in the long term
Same-sex couples still forced to spend up to £25k on IVF despite pledge to end postcode lottery
Women in same-sex couples still face a postcode lottery when accessing fertility treatment despite the Government pledging to make IVF more accessible, can reveal. As a result, they face spending up to £25,000 privately before being eligible for NHS care.
Why we still don’t know if there’s any link between ‘forever chemicals’ and female fertility
People are having fewer babies. There’s no argument about that: this drop in the fertility rate is happening in lower-, middle-, and high-income countries, and has been since around the 70s. The big question is why. To what extent is the decline in fertility due to societal changes, economic circumstances, and cultural shifts that make it less desirable or practical to have kids?