Mapping the upturn in egg donation and egg freezing in the UK
Improvements in access and attitudes towards egg freezing over the past decade, highlight the increase in reproductive choices given to families by advances in fertility treatment...
Managing Director, London Women's Clinic
Dr Kamal Ahuja is Scientific and Managing Director of London Women's Clinic.
Improvements in access and attitudes towards egg freezing over the past decade, highlight the increase in reproductive choices given to families by advances in fertility treatment...
by Dr Kamal Ahuja and 2 others
BioNews readers may have seen the news reports on surrogacy last week which showed that there has been an almost fourfold increase in the numbers of parental orders over the last decade...
by Dr Kamal Ahuja and 1 others
Among the highlights of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority's (HFEA) latest report on trends in fertility treatment is a continuing upturn in the number of egg donation cycles performed in the UK...
The demand for donor eggs in Britain continues to rise, with more and more couples postponing their first pregnancies. For some women, egg donation is the only chance of conception and pregnancy...
by Dr Kamal Ahuja and 1 others
Recently, the HFEA released a statement on adjunct treatments in IVF. The regulator had provided clear notice of its publication and both its stated intentions and content were as anticipated...
by Dr Zeynep Gurtin and 2 others
As the phenomenon of egg freezing grows, with increasing numbers of women electing to freeze their gametes in the UK each year, so do discussions of the ethical and social aspects of this practice. Currently, one of the most urgent questions concerns the
by Daniel Bodri and 2 others
In 2008, parliament voted to scrap the controversial 'need for a father' requirement from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act; a consideration for 'supportive parenting' took its place. Alongside legislation giving rights to civil partnership (2004
by Dr Kamal Ahuja and 2 others
The notion persists that sperm donation in Britain limps ahead in a state of perpetual crisis: difficulties at the much vaunted national sperm bank, imports of donor sperm flooding in from Denmark, and UK donors terrified of disclosing their identity. Yet nothing could be further from the truth...
For the first time, a British sperm bank has sufficient stocks and donors to begin supplying clinics registered by the HFEA. The move marks a shift in the dynamics of UK sperm donation and would suggest that the perception of any shortage of donor sperm in Britain is no longer true...
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has already made two decisions following its public consultation and review of gamete donation policies in the UK: first, intra-familial gamete donation can continue as before (subject to certain provisions); and second, the number of families which a single donor might help create remains limited to ten. The bigger question on compensation and benefit in kind to donors will not be answered until later this year...
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