Fertility Journal

Archive for the ‘IVF’ Category

March 12, 2010

Is the infertility customer always right?

A UK clinic has recently accepted a 59 year old woman for IVF / egg donation. She will be the oldest woman to receive this treatment in the UK. When such events arise there are predictable protests. It is argued that if treatment is successful, the risks of pregnancy are significantly increased, that she may […]

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February 12, 2010

How should IVF babies be delivered?

This doesn’t sound like a particularly controversial topic, but it can arouse a great deal of heated debate between obstetricians and their patients. I experienced this at first hand as I was both the “Person Responsible” of an assisted conception unit and a consultant obstetrician running my own NHS “Infertility Antenatal Clinic”. As a result, […]

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