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IUI, or artificial insemination, is fighting for its survival. Well, in the UK at least. If you thought you’d get IUI on the NHS, you could be disappointed. Guidelines have recommended a reduction in state-funded IUI. Why?
Having your baby in the UK? The risks of stillbirth and other fatal pregnancy complications are very low. But not as low as some other countries in the EU, according to a new European health report on the pregnancy care for women and babies.
Can you drink alcohol during IVF treatment? Patients wonder if a furtive glass of wine will really matter. In the run up to fertility treatment, it’s tempting to have a tipple. Stress is common before and after IVF. Alcohol might calm those nerves.
Smoking and IVF. Few would disagree the two don’t mix. Tobacco use during any pregnancy is bad enough. The NHS now offers a breathalyser service to all pregnant women. That's how seriously smoking and prenatal care is taken.
Cost, quality and success rates - the key stats your fertility clinic needs to tell you. And their information needs to be accurate and honest. Here's our list of the 10 most important IVF questions patients ask. 
Frozen embryo transfers once had an image problem. Loaded into the phrase was the reality that your fresh cycle failed and your chances of success were going down. Not any more. More and more babies are the result of frozen embryo transfers. FET success rates are better than you think.
Getting IVF on the NHS is tougher than ever. This blog is a regular critic of the poor provision of IVF services on the NHS. Over 60% of IVF applications are refused by the NHS. So patients pay over the odds for rip-off private treatment. We're now seeing fees of £8,000 and upwards for a single IVF cycle at some UK clinics.
In its recent report on donor conception, the Nuffield Council on Bioethics talks about 'information sharing'. That means when and how to tell your child she was donor conceived. It makes some good points. But ethical arguments don't always take account of the real world. Where, in that 200-page paper, does it actually celebrate the wonderful altruism of donors? In the UK, egg and sperm donors face barriers. Their impulse to donate is knocked back by ethical over-thinking and distrustful attitudes.