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HFEA UNDER THE AXE?

A tiny piece in The Times today (News, p 15) suggests that the Human Fertilisation & Embryology Authority (HFEA), the fertility watchdog CORE has been watching very attentively since 1990 when it was first created, may be coming to the end of its life.

‘Expected to be abolished or scaled back’... 

Clinics Using Embryos for Target Practice

The number of procedures required for a trainee to reach proficiency in embryo-transfer is unknown. A new study* attempted to determine the learning curve of embryo-transfer by monitoring the pregnancy rates (PR) per transfer, carried out by five... 

The Sunday Times draws attention today, Mother’s Day (March 14), to a co-operative initiative between a US and a UK fertility clinic focusing on the marketing of human eggs to UK infertility patients. There will be a seminar in London this week and one of the attendees will be ‘awarded a free single donor egg IVF cycle’ as an added commercial...