Nicole Kidman lost two babies

Nicole Kidman has revealed to Marie Claire magazine that she in fact lost two pregnancies during her marriage to Tom Cruise. She had an ectopic pregnancy shortly after they were married and a miscarriage around the time Cruise filed for divorce. Read more

Some fertility experts worry that procedures like egg freezing and genetic screening of embryos, are unfairly raising patients' hopes. Read more...

BBC quintuplets row

The BBC added its own soundtrack of babies gurgling to a news report about the birth of quintuplets, the corporation admitted. It is another 'fakery' incident in a long line of television exposes on rigged caller competitions and phone-ins.

The quintuplets were born to Russian parents who controversially travelled to Britain, funded by a consortium of wealthy Russians to give birth to the babies, who were conceived after taking fertility drugs.

Obese women barred from IVF

British experts have called for obsese women to be barred from undgergoing IVF treatment until they have lost weight. Read more...

Procreation Vacations

Tour companies are now catering for the "pregnant pause" aimed at couples keen to conceive while on holiday. Read more...

Curvy women have cleverer babies

A study has found that women with large hips and small waists are more intelligent than those with either “apple-shaped” or linear bodies.

The paper, to be published in the journal Evolution and Human Behaviour this week, suggests that such women give birth to more intelligent children - possibly a result of higher levels of omega3 fatty acids on the hips.

A flower you don't want!

According to research by the Terrence Higgins Trust, 1 in 10 British men think chlamydia is a flower.

British men are to be urged to be tested for chlamydia, the commonest sexually transmitted disease. Last year in Britain men made up only a fifth of the 150,000 people under 25 who were tested. Women are much more likely to take part in the voluntary screening, and publicity has focused on the risks chlamydia infection can pose to female fertility.

However, men can also be infected, and can pass on the infection to their partners. The infection can cause pain in the testicles and there is evidence that it may also damage male fertility.