IVF clinics accused of 'embezzling' cash from desperate patients
IVF clinics are seemingly 'embezzling' money from vulnerable patients by offering them unnecessary expensive add-ons to their treatment, according to a fertility expert...
Georgia Canton is a Volunteer Writer at BioNews and works as an Embryologist at King's Fertility in London. She completed the NHS Scientific Training Programme in 2023, with her research project investigating the use of morphokinetic data to predict the likelihood of aneuploidy in embryos. She studied her MSc in Reproductive Medicine: Science and Ethics at the University of Kent and her BSc in Medical Genetics at the University of Leicester. She tweets as @GE_Everett
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