Fertility treatment success linked to weight and race, study claims
New research suggests that women from ethnic minority backgrounds may have lower success rates with fertility treatment....
Dr Marianne Kennedy is a Volunteer Writer at BioNews, having originally joined the publication under the auspices of its writing scheme. She obtained her medical degree from University College London's Division of Medicine, under the auspices of its MBPhD Programme, where she divided her time between clinical training at University College London Hospital and research at the Medical Research Council's National Institute for Medical Research (now subsumed into The Francis Crick Institute). Her research focused on metabolic changes in the heart before and after birth, and has potential implications for high altitude medicine, cot death and heart failure. Her essay on this subject, 'Conquistadores and Cot Death', was shortlisted for the Max Perutz Science Writing Prize, while her story 'Freedom Through Genetics' was shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust's Science Writing Prize. Her earlier research concerned obesity, and how gut hormones and gene variations impact on eating behaviour, appetite and body weight. She also writes for the Society for Endocrinology's public information website You and Your Hormones. Previously, she studied Medicine and Physiology, Development and Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge. She is currently working a junior doctor at Southampton University Hospital. Marianne is also a singer/songwriter and a member of the all-singing, all-dancing a cappella group In the Smoke.
New research suggests that women from ethnic minority backgrounds may have lower success rates with fertility treatment....
Genetics is creating more confusion than the offside rule in pub conversation. Most of us had limited teaching on the subject at school or we may have left before Watson and Crick ran out of the pub that night with the structure of DNA on a beer mat. We are left to soak in the media murkiness and skewed views of individuals, which could one day influence important decisions on our health....
A couple from Dorset expecting to receive two cycles of IVF on the NHS has spoke out against the trust after being told they could have access to only one....
Couples struggling to conceive may be more likely to have a child if the man takes certain vitamins or other antioxidants, according to scientists....
Scientists have found that the health of infants born through IVF depends on which techniques were used and their infertility diagnoses....
NHS Medway in Kent, South East England, has joined several other trusts in suspending funding for new referrals for IVF treatment until the new financial year when the decision will be reviewed....
Scientists have found a direct link between the 'fat mass and obesity associated' (Fto) gene and increased weight...
Restoring the fertility of men made sterile by childhood cancer treatment has come a step closer. Scientists claim they've successfully multipled sperm stem cells collected from young boys' testes in the laboratory...
Infertility in women is often linked to obesity. A new study published in Cell Metabolism suggests that insulin signalling in the pituitary gland could play a key role....
Research carried out at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine suggests that the packaging of DNA affects the production of sperm and could explain some cases of male infertility....
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