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Browsing Archive: April, 2009

Complete guide to IVF - homeopathy gets good review

Posted by Elizabeth Biagi on Monday, April 20, 2009,

This month sees the lauch of a new book on IVF, this time with a difference it brings together the highly specialised medical world of IVF and complimentary therapies. I'm pleased to say that I contributed the quotes on homeopathy.

Last year I was contacted by author Kate Brian of 'The Complete Guide to Female Fertility' and 'In Pursuit of Parenthood' now mother of two children after IVF. Kate was researching her lastest published book 'The Complete Guide to IVF' to include a chapter on 'Com...

Wild thing!

Posted by Elizabeth Biagi on Thursday, April 2, 2009,

A recent article in The Guardian suggested that couples are more likely to conceive when their love life is passionate and wild.

"Forget books, special diets and particular times of the month. Couples who want a baby should put their energy into having the wild, uninhibited sex of their early days together.

The better their quality of love-making, the greater their chances of conception, scientists say. What one fertility expert calls "gourmet sex" - where both partners take time to ensure the ...

Homeopathy is safe

Posted by Elizabeth Biagi on Thursday, April 2, 2009, In : Homeopathy and Fertility

A new detailed report from the European Council for Classical Homeopathy (ECCH) entitled ‘The Safety of Homeopathy’ concludes that homeopathic treatment is safe. Published in January, it comes at a time when patient safety is high on the political agenda of the European Union. The European Commission has recently publishedfigures estimating that 197,000 deaths per year in the EU are caused by adverse drug reactions (ADRs) and that the total cost to society of ADRs in the EU is €79...