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…
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How fast is too fast? Innovation in IVF and the burden of proof * PET
The speed of how technological innovations are deployed in infertility care is discussed here by Dr Rita Vassena…
The relationship between solo parents and fertility clinics * PET
Dr Grace Halden asks how medicine and patient communities can work together to better ensure differentiated care, using the example of solo motherhood via gamete donation…
More patients accessing IVF, but fewer receiving NHS funding * PET
Chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, Julia Chain, explains that more people than ever before are accessing fertility services in the UK – and more people than ever before are paying for it…
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Mythbusting mitochondrial disease and mitochondrial donation * PET
Mitochondrial disease and mitochondrial donation have been in the headlines, following the news that at least one child with donated mitochondria has been born in the UK. Both the science and the regulation of mitochondrial donation can be complex, and this has led to some confusion.
The Progress Educational Trust podcast
PET (the Progress Educational Trust) is an independent charity that improves choices for people affected by infertility and genetic conditions. On this podcast, you can hear the latest PET discussions of scientific, ethical, legal and policy issues in fertility, genetics, genomics and embryo/stem cell research.
One quarter of IVF patients treated unfairly by employer, survey finds * PET
One in four women who disclose to their employer they are undergoing IVF treatment are then treated unfairly at work, a survey of more than 3500 women has shown. Research carried out by campaign group Pregnant Then Screwed in partnership with Women in Data found that out of 3540 respondents, 42 percent revealed to their employer they were having fertility treatment.
Dutch charity seeks destruction of prolific donor’s sperm * PET
A Dutch charity representing donor-conceived children has launched a civil legal case against a prolific sperm donor who claims to have fathered over 500 children. Donorkind, a charity that seeks to represent the interests of donor children in the Netherlands, is suing a 41-year-old sperm donor for donating sperm to more families than is legally mandated in the country, and misleading behaviour to prospective parents.