Suppressing the immune systems of women who suffer recurrent miscarriage may be able to allow many more to give birth.

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She then saw a TV report about researchers in Liverpool looking at the role of immune cells called NK cells in recurrent miscarriage.

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The researchers compared a group of 105 women who had all suffered recurrent spontaneous miscarriages with a carefully matched control group of 91 postmenopausal women who had never had a miscarriage and who had given birth at least twice.

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