IVF with donor eggs: the emotional, physical and financial strain
After years of failed fertility treatment, my consultant said I should think about egg donation. I was 45 by that stage.
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After years of failed fertility treatment, my consultant said I should think about egg donation. I was 45 by that stage.
MPs back regulations to permit the use of an IVF technique which allows the creation of a baby bearing DNA from three people.
Wrists have been slapped today by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence – otherwise known as NICE.
Researchers say that picking IVF embryos with a gene test will dramatically increase chances of conception, helping millions more couples to have babies.
With Britain seemingly set to be the first country to approve babies with three parents, what makes the UK such fertile ground for IVF innovation?
Thousands of infertile couples could see their chances of having a baby improved following a new technique which assesses the quality of IVF embryos before they are implanted.
The IVF pioneer Professor Sir Robert Edwards, whose science helped in the conception and birth of four million people around the world, has died aged 87.
The UK’s fertility watchdog says that creating a baby through IVF, using the DNA from three separate people, should be considered by the government.
New guidelines published today say that for the first time women up to 42 should be offered IVF on the NHS.
Members of the public will help determine whether ethical considerations should prevent the legalisation of a form of fertility treatment that would weed out some devastating inherited diseases.
Victoria Macdonald writes on the funding of IVF and a recent paper on Hormone Replacement Therapy.
The health regulator wants to raise the age limit for women receiving IVF – but patients’ groups tell Channel 4 News it will have no impact while a postcode lottery for treatment remains.
Thousands of people could benefit from a funding boost for research into defective mitochondria – but there are ethical questions, Channel 4 News hears.
More than 70 per cent of NHS trusts are ignoring guidance to offer infertile couples three chances at IVF and some have stopped funding the pregnancy treatment altogether, a damning report claims.