Newcastle Skeptics October event
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‘Alternative’ Fertility Therapies: Overthinking, Overdiagnosing, and Overtreatment - with Dr Jane Stewart.
This talk explores the basics of natural fertility and charts the growth of the fertility ‘industry’, the commercialisation of the specialty, the growth of unproven treatments (so-called ‘add-ons’) and pressures to use them. It explores the history of the debate around the use of these ‘add-on’ treatments, their impact on patients and the role of the regulators.
Jane Stewart (MD, BSc (Hons), MRCOG, FRCOG) is a specialist in trans-people’s reproductive health. Now retired, she was an NHS Consultant in Reproductive Medicine at the Newcastle Fertility Centre (Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust). A longstanding member of the British Fertility Society, she was responsible for the application for the world’s first licence for mitochondrial replacement treatment.
Tickets are PAYF £3-£10.