There has been a fair amount in the press recently about mitochondrial disease and some possible new ways of treating it. The latest technique is fairly controversial and the HFEA is currently running a consultation about whether or not it should be approved in this country. This is a fairly specialist area so it may […]
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Egg donation and mitochondrial disease
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BBC Radio 4: Overseas egg donation on the Today Programme
The charity UK Donorlink and the British Fertility Society are increasingly concerned about the rise in people going overseas for fertility treatment, especially egg donation. The future implications for a child conceived through this route, and their family, are far reaching and have not yet been fully appreciated by all involved. Here is the interview on […]
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Why one amazing woman decided to be an egg donor
I always wanted to donate eggs myself, partly because we needed donated sperm ourselves so I’ve been through it from the other side. We wouldn’t have our wonderful family if it wasn’t for the generosity of our sperm donor so it seemed only fitting to try to donate myself once our own family was complete. […]
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Egg donation and secrecy – breaking the spell
As an egg donor would you talk about egg donation to friends, and as a recipient of donated eggs would you speak openly in public? The past week has seen two public figures talk openly about needing to find an egg donor to help them have their family: Victoria Macdonald gave her story in a […]
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Daily Mail Story on 12th May - Statement
Headline issue The Daily Mail has published a story under the headlines “Fertility firm offers Cambridge girls £750 for eggs” (newspaper) and “£750 for your eggs: Fertility firm targets Cambridge Uni girls as critics blast company for exploiting ‘financially vulnerable’ students”(website) Refutation The implication from this story is that Altrui has been offering money or […]
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HFEA National Donation Strategy Group
In April the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) announced that they are planning to set up a new National Donation Strategy Group which is to be tasked with ‘raising awareness of donation and improving how donors are treated, whilst also protecting the interests of patients and donor conceived people’. We think that this is […]
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“Egg donation - as common as giving blood?”
The chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) wrote in the Telegraph last week that donating eggs and sperm should be something commonly considered by anyone able to do so. She further stated that donors should be welcomed at clinics, and that centres of excellence should be set up to provide a service […]
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Stem cells that can create human eggs
An article published yesterday (26th February) in ‘Nature Medicine’ holds out exciting possibilities for the future of fertility treatment in women. It has always been thought that women were born with their full complement of potential eggs in their ovaries and that these steadily declined throughout life until falling to zero at the menopause. However, […]
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Egg Donors at the ExCeL Mother & Baby Show
It’s now only six days and counting until Cathy and I hit London for the Mother and Baby Show at ExCeL (24th - 26th February). We’re really looking forward to putting names to faces of some fantastic donors who we have had so much contact with, and to meet potential new donors as well. It’s […]
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HFEA Compensation for egg donors
From April 1st 2012 all egg donors will be entitled to the maximum rate of compensation of £750 for their donation. This is in recognition of the inconvenience, commitment and disruption that going through egg donation treatment involves. In most ‘normal’ situations this is intended to cover child care, travel and other out of pocket […]
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