03/06/2009 by admin.

Click on the link below to read all about Zestica, how it works, the extensive clinical trials it has undergone at Dundee’s bioscience hub and how it is helping couples trying to conceive

http://www.theherald.co.uk/business/news/display.var.2508174.0.Burdica_Biomed_launches_fertility_treatment_on_back_of_200_000_funding.php

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03/06/2009 by admin.

Have you visited our Zestica information website yet

http://www.zestica-fertility.co.uk/

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03/06/2009 by admin.

Just got the link to the doctors lounge from a friend on Twitter, to this study that is going to be conducted at Imperial College London

Understanding the link between Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) and insulin resistance is the aim of a new project announced today, funded by the charity WellBeing of Women.

It is known that women with PCOS have a 3-fold increase in their risk of developing type-2 diabetes, where the body does not produce enough insulin or cannot use insulin properly. Insulin resistance is an important factor in the condition, which is the most common female hormone disorder. PCOS affects between 5 and 10 per cent of women and is a major cause of infertility.

The new £97K project aims to identify a defective point on the insulin signalling pathway in women with PCOS. The researchers, from Imperial College London, hope this will enable the development of new therapies which target this part of the pathway, to counter the insulin resistance and the fertility problems that PCOS can cause.

Click on the link to read full article  http://www.doctorslounge.com/endocrinology/news/pcos_insulin_resistance.shtml

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03/06/2009 by admin.

Is there an alternative for couples who don’t want IVF? NaPro Technology claims to be less invasive, cheaper and more successful

For anyone who has visited the plush offices of a private IVF consultant, arriving at the HQ of FertilityCare may seem underwhelming. Housed in a small, flat-roof extension of a Victorian building on a side street in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, the rooms are small, sparsely furnished and anonymous; there is no sign of the obligatory pinboard crammed with snaps of babies — a reassuring testament to any clinic’s success rate. “We haven’t got round to putting that up yet,” says Dr Anne Carus, the medical consultant, apologetically. The company has been in its new offices for a only few months.

FertilityCare does not offer IVF to its clients, but is the UK’s biggest provider of NaPro Technology, or Natural Procreative Technology (NPT). Developed and still mainly taught at the Pope Paul VI Institute in Nebraska, NPT is offered to couples as an “ethical alternative” to assisted reproductive techniques. As it is a Roman Catholic organisation, the couples must be married. There is no egg selection, no donor insemination and no embryo wastage.

It has been embraced enthusiastically in countries with large Catholic populations, such as the US, the Irish Republic and Poland, and claims to have a success rate that equals or even betters that of IVF, but promises to be much less invasive. Now, after years on the fringes of fertility treatment, NaPro is slowly establishing itself in Britain.

extract from Times online article-click link to read full article

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article6342054.ece

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