“AT THIS point I’ll try anything I can to have a child,” says Emma*, a 38-year-old teacher from London. Emma faces a similar problem to many women: her ovaries produce too few ripe eggs for doctors to extract and use for in-vitro fertilisation (IVF). She is also one of a number of women undergoing IVF who is self-medicating with a supplement called dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) in an attempt to beat the biological clock.
The hope is that this experimental treatment could improve the chances of older women using their own eggs to conceive with IVF instead of resorting to donors.…
