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FILM: Adding Up What We Know — A Global Perspective on Fertility Treatment Add-Ons

Published 16 May 2022 posted in Comment and appears in BioNews 1144

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This film documents a Progress Educational Trust event about fertility treatment 'add-ons' — optional treatments or procedures offered alongside IVF, often at considerable expense to the patient, which may not be supported by reliable evidence...

This film documents the Progress Educational Trust event 'Adding Up What We Know: A Global Perspective on Fertility Treatment Add-Ons'.

The film was produced in partnership with the Remaking the Human Body project (which is based at Queen Mary University of London and is funded by Wellcome), with additional sponsorship from Cambridge University Press.

(If you cannot see the film of the event below, click here to view it.)
Introduction
0:00:00 Sarah Norcross
Director, Progress Educational Trust
Presentations
0:00:39 Dr Kersti Lundin
Director, Sahlgrenska University Hospital's Reproductive Medicine Laboratory
0:08:50 Dr Manuela Perrotta
Principal Investigator, Remaking the Human Body
0:18:39 Dr Sarah Lensen
Research Fellow, University of Melbourne
0:29:09 Satu Rautakallio-Hokkanen
Chair, Fertility Europe
0:38:12 Dr Sigal Klipstein
Chair, American Society for Reproductive Medicine's Ethics Committee
0:49:26 Peter Thompson
Chief Executive, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority
Discussion
1:00:37 Responses to audience questions and comments

This film was made by Video Production Edinburgh.

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