Robert Winston: Send me your IVF questions

Professor Robert Winston is Britain's best-known reproductive health expert. Now 73, he runs a pioneering research programme and is launching an online Q&A for fertility patients confused by the conflicting information availableHe is one of our best known medical experts, the friendly face of fertility specialists, so when Robert Winston emerges from behind the glass partition at his office at Imperial College, London, he is instantly recognisable with his trademark moustache and dark eyebrows. He looks much younger than 73. Although retired from medical practice, he still juggles various roles including that of professor of science and society and emeritus professor of fertility studies at Imperial, as well as sitting as a Labour peer in the House of Lords.Winston has been a thorn in the side of the fertility industry in recent years, critical of the commercialisation – of high costs and unproven treatments. His outspokenness may not have always gone down well with colleagues, but it hasn't dented his popularity with patients, many of whom seek out his expertise."Each week, I get dozens of emails from people who feel that they are not getting proper advice from the clinics they are attending and don't have a clear understanding of what has been happening to them, why their treatment has failed or why they need to have a specific treatment," he says."Writing a carefully worded response to an inquiry can take an hour. I am spending a big proportion of my time, usua...
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