Tony and Barrie Drewitt-Barlow, the millionaire gay couple who last month announced the birth of their third surrogate-born child, now say they would like one more child to complete their family. The couple had twins Aspen and Saffron in 1999 using an egg donor, IVF and a surrogate mother from...
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) yesterday claimed that infertile couples are being misled by some clinics and paying too much for unnecessary tests and treatments. They also stated that many of the treatments offered to fertility patients are 'useless', in that they may be 'scientifically unsound' or...
Panayiotis Zavos, a fertility doctor who runs a clinic in the US, was due to have announced at a conference in London today that he created 'human-cow' embryos that survived in the laboratory for two weeks. In theory, according to an article reporting on the forthcoming announcement in the UK's...
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), a German independent science funding agency, has recommended that a national gene bank be established in Germany. It is proposed that this would be similar in form to the UK's Biobank, or other national schemes already operating in Iceland and Estonia. The DFG Senate Commission on...
British fertility specialist Professor Lord Robert Winston has warned that more research into some fertility techniques associated with IVF needs to take place, in order to ensure the safety of patients and their children. Speaking at the British Association Festival of Science in Salford, Manchester earlier this week, he said...
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Should IVF doctors inform patients of all potential risks?
by Juliet Tizzard
Many science and medical journalists will have spent last week in Salford, attending the annual Festival of Science, hosted by the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BA). Judging from newspaper coverage over the last week, there was plenty at the conference to keep the media busy. But one...