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Health minister Jackie Doyle-Price has urged England's 195 clinical commission groups to end the IVF postcode lottery...
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Donor conception and direct-to-consumer DNA testing
by Dr Yvonne Collins
The Progress Educational Trust (PET), which publishes BioNews, held a public event in London to discuss direct-to-consumer genetic testing in relation to donor anonymity...