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,... 

RCOG blatantly endorses status quo of UK Abortion Law in Government commissioned reports

Two reports, commissioned by the Government in relationship to abortion were published last week by the Royal College of Obstetricians... 

For some years now there have been big question marks relating to the overall safety of assisted reproductive technology, and whether the children born have any increased risk of poorer health outcomes than those conceived naturally.

The processes... 

Prof Stephen Wilkinson, from Keele University, has published a controversial article supporting social sex selection on the BBC site, ‘Scrubbing Up’. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8665282.stm

Wilkinson argues that it is time to lift... 

Chrissy’s Caviar

The offer of free egg donor IVF to one lucky participant at a meeting in London this week has hit the headlines worldwide.

CORE has commented on the vulnerability of the women selling their eggs and recommends that you read the attached witness... 

What would the HFEA say to this one?

The mother of a murder victim in the United States has vowed to harvest her dead son’s sperm in order to become a grandmother. Missy Evans has pursued a significant legal battle to gain... 

CORE reflects on attending an open meeting of the HFEA, held on 1st December 2009 at the Barbican Centre in London.

In October 2009, the HFEA started its fundamental overhaul of the way in which Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis... 

ICSI: Creating a Generation of Infertile Children?

A study* conducted at the Institute of Child Health in London comparing 211 six-year-olds conceived through Intracytoplasmic sperm injection... 

A study published today in scientific journal PLoS ONE* examines the fundamental correlation between age and fertility in women. This ground-breaking research is the first of its kind to collate the decline of the “ovarian reserve” from pre-natal...