This year we celebrate an anniversary for Human Fertility as we publish the first issue of volume 20. Although the history of the journal has been described many times previously (Leese, Citation1998; Pacey, Citation2015; Remmington, Citation2004), this represents a major landmark.
So, for the first issue of volume 20, I am pleased to report that we are publishing a further range of articles that represent the multidisciplinary nature of reproductive medicine and consequently Human Fertility. I’d like to illustrate this with three examples.
The first is an original article by O’kane (Citation2017) which describes the experience of a woman waiting for the results of a pregnancy test and is reproduced in the form of a poem. The second is a review article by Sigalos, Triantafyllidou, & Vlahos (Citation2017) which reviews the evidence concerning how techniques of embryo transfer affect IVF outcomes. The third is an original article by Iwashima, Ishikawa, & Itoh (Citation2017) which describes a study investigating the risk of congenital heart defects in individuals born using techniques of assisted reproduction (and reassuringly finding a null relationship).
If these three papers viewed side by side (poetry, embryo transfer, and a follow-up study of ART conceived individuals) are not great examples of the multidisciplinary nature of Human Fertility, I don’t know what are.
Finally, at the back of this issue, you will find up to date details of each of the societies associated with the journal.
I wish you all a prosperous 2017.
References
- Iwashima, S., Ishikawa, T., & Itoh, H. (2017). Reproductive technologies and the risk of congenital heart defects. Human Fertility, 20, 14–21. doi: 10.1080/14647273.2016.1254352.
- Leese, H.J. (1998). Editorial. Human Fertility, 1, 1. doi: 10.1080/1464727982000198001.
- O’kane, J. (2017). Lines. Human Fertility, 20, 2. doi: 10.1080/14647273.2016.1265674.
- Pacey, A.A. (2015). With many thanks for Henry Leese. Human Fertility, 18, 79–80. doi: 10.3109/14647273.2015.1057421.
- Remmington, J. (2004). Publisher’s Note. Human Fertility, 7, 3. doi: 10.1080/14647270410001684221.
- Sigalos, G., Triantafyllidou, O., & Vlahos, N. (2017). How do laboratory embryo transfer techniques affect IVF outcomes? A review of current literature. Human Fertility, 20, 3–13. doi: 10.1080/14647273.2016.1255357.