Fertility Test Kit Breakthrough

The test tells would-be mothers how close they are to menopause by measuring hormone levels. The mail-order kit is already being hailed as a breakthrough as big as the Pill.

"It will give people warning of when their fertility starts to decline before it is too late," said the test's inventor, Professor Bill Ledger, of Sheffield University, in the UK.

"I spend too much of my life in clinics with very intelligent, sensible women who have left it until 40-something.

"They find the right guy and their career is in place and they are desperately upset when they suddenly find that they can't conceive, even with IVF.

"Over 40, IVF is a very inefficient process and most people are going to be disappointed."

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