The 49th episode of the Progress Educational Trust podcast explores the newly updated Fertility Guideline published by the UK's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (see BioNews 1334), with speakers including Dr Raj Mathur (a member of the Guideline Committee that worked on the update) plus Professor Richard Anderson, Anya Sizer and Katie Rollings.
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