News from the annual European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology meeting (1 July 2014)

Outpatient hysteroscopy before IVF doesn’t seem to improve IVF results (News Medical, 30 June 2014)

A study from Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospital investigated rates of IVF success following a hysteroscopy.

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Birth control pills may make women’s eggs ‘look old’ (Live Science, 1 July 2014)

A Danish study presented at the ESHRE annual meeting in Munich examined whether taking birth control pills obscure a woman’s underlying reproductive status.

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Most women are aware of oocyte freezing for social reasons (Medical Xpress, 1 July 2014)

While the majority of younger women are aware of egg freezing as a technique of fertility preservation and consider it an acceptable means of reproductive planning, only one in five would consider it appropriate for them, according to the results of an internet survey performed in the UK and Denmark.

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