A UK non-departmental public body established by an Act of Parliament in 1990, which regulates treatment using eggs and sperm, and treatment and research involving human embryos. It sets standards for, and issues licences to, fertility treatment and embryo research centres.
Discrepancies between public opinion and real-world access to fertility services in the UK have been highlighted by a fertility and genomics survey commissioned by the Progress Education Trust...
Three quarters (75 percent) of sperm used in the UK is imported from overseas, despite British men's apparent willingness to donate...
A UK widower has won the legal right to use the last remaining embryo that he made with his late wife in a landmark legal case...
There have been recent reports that the UK's assisted reproduction regulator, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, is considering changing the law surrounding donor anonymity, due to the growing use of consumer genetic testing...
A possible review of the law relating to donor anonymity has been proposed by HFEA chief executive Peter Thompson...
How responsive is the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act to the pace of social and technological change? In this comment, Julian Hitchcock contemplates revision of the Act, and how might we optimise its responsiveness to clinical need while upholding standards...
The question of what is a 'permitted embryo' under the legislation governing assisted reproduction in the UK has received increasing scrutiny as technological progress challenges the concept of embryohood...
NHS-funded IFV cycles were slower to resume on average than privately-funded treatments after the mandatory closure of all UK clinics due to the COVID-19 pandemic...
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority is considering ways gamete donor anonymity laws could be changed, as the advent of straight-to-consumer genetic testing has 'thrown into question' the assumption of anonymity...
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