Endometriosis affects 10% of women and some of them are unaware of it Its symptoms include painful periods that become incapacitating on a day-to-day basis: missing school, being off work… It is a chronic disease, there is no cure, but its effects can be alleviated  We know that we are in troubled times. Suddenly...

Coronavirus and Assisted Reproduction: Next steps

We continue to fight the spread of COVID-19 as we know best: with good judgement, common sense and always prioritizing the health and safety of our patients and society in general. And a fundamental factor in achieving this is information, the key to defining the best way to act and respond to the uncertainty that...

How to interpret a pregnancy test: are there any false positives?

For anyone taking a pregnancy test, the results are bound to be important, and in some cases, life changing. Whatever your personal reason for taking a test, you need to know that you can interpret the result correctly and that you can rely on its accuracy. So how accurate are the sorts of tests that...

How hormones affect your ability to get pregnant

They only need to ensure that they are in optimal health for conception. For them, a healthy and varied diet is the simpl[...]

Menopause is defined as the complete absence of periods for 12 months and as we know, the menopause is when a woman ceases to be fertile. The average age at which this occurs in the US is 51, but women can start being menopausal at age 40 to 50. But, in fact, what most of us think of as the menopause, or being menopausal, is actually the period of transition between the normal fertile years and the menopause itself. This is known as the perimenopause, meaning ‘around menopause’ or premenopause, which is the time that fertility starts to de[...]

For people who are at that point in their lives when they are actively intending to become pregnant, it’s easy to forget that 85% of couples will not experience any problems at all. For this fortunate majority, as long as they have regular sex, the woman will be pregnant within one year. But having taken that momentous decision, a year may seem like an age, and many women are keen to know how t[...]