Month: October 2010

COUPLES undergoing IVF treatment stand to benefit from a new screening technique that films the first 48 hours of an embryo’s development and pinpoints which embryos will continue to develop healthily. Scientists from Stanford University, […] […]

PEOPLE who spend long hours with a laptop computer sitting on their lap have been warned they could suffer “toasted skin syndrome”. The unusual-looking mottled skin condition can result from long-term heat exposure, according to medical […] […]

A leading fertility expert is urging couples to start a family at a younger age amid fears of a growing over-reliance on science and technology. Dr Richard Fisher, co-founder of the country’s largest infertility services […] […]

Two drug companies which market popular painkillers have given each other a headache over the advertising of one of the drugs. GlaxoSmithKline, which sells paracetamol-based drug Panadol, complained that Reckitt Benckiser, which markets and manufactures […] […]