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Fertility clinics giving women 'false sense of security' over egg freezing Websites making 'misleading' claims about chances of pregnancy, researchers say, with one suggesting success rate could be up to 80 per cent 12 March 2021 • 7:00pm Fertility clinics are giving women a “false sense of security” that egg freezing will guarantee them a baby in future, experts claim. Researchers have criticised clinic websites which make “misleading” claims about the likelihood of egg freezing leading to a successful pregnancy. Dr Zeynep Gurtin, a women’s health specialist at University College...

Gender based prohibitions in the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act Appeared in BioNews 1086 The act, as amended in 2008, includes provisions and prohibitions which have been at the heart of the Progress Educational Trust (PET)'s activity since the charity was founded in 1992. PET has campaigned for and influenced changes to the HFE Act on a number of topical matters; these include amending legislation in the UK to permit mitochondrial donation for women with mitochondrial disease and removing the ten-year limit on social egg freezing (see Extend the Limit). Due to a number of significant...

Why financial and medical decision-making must remain separate in UK fertility Appeared in BioNews 1084 Fertility treatment in the UK – whether accessed via the NHS or privately – has always been considered safe, robust and research-led. It has been regulated for the last 30 years, ensuring that the industry has patients' best interests at heart. But recent weeks have seen a major shift in how private fertility treatment can be paid for, with a major clinic group now offering multi-cycle and refund programmes directly for the first time, removing vital separations between medical and co...

The 14-day limit should be extended to 28 days Appeared in BioNews 1083 The '14-day rule', initially proposed in 1979 in the USA, was first recommended in the UK by the Warnock Committee in 1984. It limits research on intact human embryos to 'prior to 14 days' gestation or the beginning of primitive streak formation' and is part of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Acts of 1990 and 2008 (HFE Acts). This legislation has been successfully implemented in the UK, but also in several other countries (eg, Australia's Research Involving Human Embryos Act 2002). It is followed in jurisdictions ...

TV Review: Stand Up to Infertility Appeared in BioNews 1083 A question to all men: Do you feel your fertility is linked to how much of a man you are? As absurd as the above question sounds, this was one of the main themes in BBC's new documentary: Rhod Gilbert's Stand up to Infertility. This overly falsified rhetoric reflects a very dangerous and scientifically ludicrous misconception that seems to echo monolithically across the globe. To think, with all our achievements in inclusion and diversity, we still cannot get men to talk, let alone talk about their infertility. Infertility affects on...