As a 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 tabloid [...]
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Clearly the whole of our website revolves around the miracle of the human egg and its remarkable potential. However, in all the discussion about donation it can be easy to lose track of what lies at the very centre of what we are talking about. A minute cell, hardly visible to the naked eye, contains [...]
Read the full article: A Quick guide to the Human Egg Cell »
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 [...]
Read the full article: Daily Mail Story on 12th May - Statement »
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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