Tag Archive for: IVF

A 40th Birthday for IVF

On 25 July Louise Brown, the world’s first baby born via in-vitro fertilisation (IVF), celebrates…
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Exposing the dark side of egg ‘donation’: the headlines this week should be just the start

At last! The media has finally picked up on the ethical and exploitative mess that is egg ‘donation’. I…
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Despite the marketing, egg freezing is not all it’s cracked up to be

IVF has become an almost routine procedure since the birth of Louise Brown in 1978. So much so that women…
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Claims that GM embryos will help boost IVF success rates are pure spin

Claims by the Times newspaper (and the BBC) that allowing GM embryos will ‘give a massive boost to…
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Whose baby is it? Another tragic case from an IVF mix-up

Most of the major newspapers have highlighted the news from Italy of an impending court battle between…
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Some brief Christian reflections to mark the birth of 5 million children by IVF

Over 5 million children have been born through IVF. The figure comes from a study, the first of its…
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3.8 million human embryos created to produce 122,000 live births – success rate of 3.2%

3.8 million human embryos created to produce 122,000 live births – success rate of 3.2% The Daily…

Infertility treatments: new research and new warnings

A new study has found that a common form of infertility treatment increases the risk of children developing…
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Three-parent embryos for mitochondrial disease? Twelve reasons for caution

The media is buzzing today with the news that Britain is planning to become the first country in the…

Time lapse imaging of embryos – exciting breakthrough or just eugenics by another name?

Various media outlets (including The Times (£), The Telegraph, BBC, The Independent and The Guardian)…

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