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The Independent

I tried to get pregnant for so long – but when it happened I only felt guilt

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/pregnancy-guilt-new-mother-ivf-b2414208.html

BioNews

Ten years of egg freezing – is it time for re-evaluation?

Ten years of egg freezing – is it time for re-evaluation? * PET

Now that women who have frozen their eggs for non-medical reasons are returning to use them, there needs to be a re-evaluation of time limits placed on storage…

The Guardian

British women turn to IVF clinics in Greece and Turkey to avoid higher costs

British women turn to IVF clinics in Greece and Turkey to avoid higher costs

Couples unable to conceive are heading further afield, but experts suggest checking regulations that may differ abroad

Mail Online

Online retailers mislead on ‘egg timer’ fertility test

Online retailers mislead on ‘egg timer’ fertility test

Websites selling home fertility tests are making misleading claims about their usefulness and could influence plans to conceive, researchers warn.The ‘egg…

The i

Surgeons perform UK’s first womb transplant giving women without a uterus hope of giving birth

Surgeons perform UK’s first womb transplant giving women without a uterus hope of giving birth

The team will eventually publish evaluations of their operations for peer review, which will take several years, before looking at whether a permanent programme is sustainable in the long term

NEJM

The Clinic That Cried Safe

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2306325?rss=searchAndBrowse

The BMJ

Consumer fertility tests in five minutes

Consumer fertility tests: five minutes with . . . Brooke Nickel

Brooke Nickel, research fellow at the Sydney School of Public Health, warns that commercial entities are using feminist language to sell non-evidence based and potentially harmful drugs and interventions “Feminist narratives have been increasingly co-opted or hijacked by commercial entities.

Metro

Couple reveal their heartbreak after struggling to get IVF on the NHS

Couple reveal their heartbreak after struggling to get IVF on the NHS

‘To get to a certain point in your life where you’re ready to be a parent and come up against more doors being closed in your face… leaves you feeling quite defeated.’

Mail Online

I gave birth to my late husband’s baby three years after he died from cancer using frozen embryos

https://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/femail/article-12381529/I-gave-birth-late-husbands-baby-three-years-died-cancer-using-frozen-embryos.html