Endocrine Abstracts

The world of reproductive medicine is unrecognisable from the early days of Mr Patrick Steptoe and Professor Robert Edwards, who pioneered the technique of In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) which after the first birth in 1978, has led to over 5 million children being born worldwide. Throughout this time ethical dilemmas have been debated a plenty, but none the less the technology has widened the opportunities for many who would otherwise have been left infertile from illness, genet...