Índice1 What is vaginal flora?2 How can vaginal flora be analysed?3 What are the possible outcomes?4 Does it affect fertility? What is vaginal flora? A number of microorganisms consisting of bacteria, viruses and fungi co-habit […]

Artificial insemination (AI) consists of depositing semen inside the female genitals. A woman’s partner’s semen can be used if he does not have any serious male fertility issues but, nowadays, inseminations are mainly carried out […]

Ejaculation is the organic process that controls the discharge of semen from the seminal vesicles to outside the body. Substances of nutritional and maintenance value are added along the route in order to guarantee vitality […]

Implantation failure, defined as recurrent embryo transfer failures, remains a mystery because its cause is not always clear. The contractions that take place in the uterus could be one possible explanation for it. The uterus is a muscle […]

From the moment embryo transfer takes place up until the day when a woman takes a pregnancy test, a set of events aimed at achieving implantation (adherence of the embryo to the uterus) take place in the uterus […]

The human genome is composed of 20,000 genes. Genes contain information for synthesising all the proteins in our bodies and these proteins carry out various biological functions. The information is contained in regions called exons and they […]

Pain killers, including paracetamol, and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen are the most readily-available and commonly-used medicines in the world. This is because they treat non-specific pain (migraines, high temperatures, muscular pain, general discomfort, […]

Contraceptives are any means of stopping the union between an ovum and a spermatozoon from taking place and, therefore, avoiding pregnancy. There are a number of available contraceptives  for men and for women and their […]

Pregnancy losses (miscarriages) usually happen as a result of factors in the foetus or in the mother. However, in 50% of cases, the pregnancy losses that happen during the first trimester of pregnancy are caused by chromosomal […]

Just like with any specialist area of medicine, when we need to turn to a reproductive medicine clinic, we have a number of concerns and we need to have a clear understanding of what our […]