In last week's Commentary, the table showing the provision of state-funded infertility treatment incorrectly showed the age limit in the UK as 4, when it should have been 40. The corrected article can be read in full now.
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Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
Infertility treatment in the UK: Implementing the NICE guidelines
Many years ago the then Minister of Health, Frank Dobson, drew attention to the unfairness of the 'postcode lottery' of provision of infertility treatments in the UK. Following his initiative, a subsequent Minister, Alan Milburn, later commissioned the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) to look into this...
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