Newcastle Skeptics October Event

'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.