Josie Ford
THE man’s crotch, covered only by his underpants, was level with my head and twice as large as life. Luckily it was only a poster at a trade exhibition for fertility doctors I attended in Vienna. It was advertising supplements claimed to boost sperm counts. Odd, given that a recent review concluded that the evidence for the effectiveness of such pills is inconclusive.
It was the first time I had been to this conference, the annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology. I was both awed and appalled by what I heard. For all…
