No More Peeing on a Stick: New Ovulation Kit Uses Saliva to Determine when a Woman is Fertile
A revolutionary new ovulation kit that uses saliva - rather than a urine sample - has been launched in the UK.
Traditional fertility predictor kits use urine to test for an increase in lutenising hormone (LH) which takes place one or two days before ovulation.
But the new Maybe Baby tester, shaped like a lipstick, claims to measure oestrogen and salt levels found in traces of women's saliva which surges when they are most fertile.
The manufacturer claims the £40 saliva test is 98 per cent accurate and could end the traditional and, less than dignified 'pee-on-a-stick' method. Read MoreStudy: Nearly 1 in 3 New Moms Report Painful Sex in the Year After Giving Birth
Read MoreHow your Mum's Early Menopause can Affect your Fertility: Number of Eggs in Ovaries is Lower
A woman can predict how long she has left to conceive by checking how old her mother was at the menopause, according to researchers.
A study has found that the number of eggs a woman has left in her ovaries is lower if her mother had an early menopause.
With more women delaying motherhood to their late-30s and beyond, the chances of conceiving fall as the ovaries run down their stock of eggs.
In the UK, the average age of the menopause is 51, but hereditary factors mean that the process can happen earlier in some women than in others.
Read MoreRevolutionary New 10-minute Test 'Can Predict Premature Births'
A revolutionary new test developed in Britain can predict whether a woman will give birth prematurely within a matter of minutes, doctors say.
Researchers have developed the early-warning system, which can warn an expectant mother that she is about to have a baby in just 10 minutes.
Medical experts have hailed the test, developed at one of London's leading hospitals, which will replace an existing, but less accurate, test across the NHS.
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