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| The death of Denmark's public ART funding |
| 28 June 2010 - by Dr Søren Ziebe |
| Around two children in each Danish school class was conceived using some form of ART and Danish fertility clinics are involved in the birth of eight per cent of children born each year. So it is extremely troubling that the Government has chosen to play roulette with Danish fertility by introducing 100 per cent patient payment for ART in public clinics...[Read More] |
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| A decade of progress and misunderstandings |
| 28 June 2010 - by Professor Marcus Pembrey |
| The 10th anniversary of the first draft of the human genome sequence has been characterised by justifiable celebration at the extraordinary progress in DNA sequencing technology, yet disappointment with the impact it has had on medicine to date. Is this disappointment also justified? Not really...[Read More] |
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| Women freeze eggs for career reasons or to await Mr Right, studies find |
| 28 June 2010 - by Harriet Vickers |
| A large number of female university students say they would undergo egg freezing to allow time to build a career, a relationship, or become financially stable. However, older women who go through the procedure say it is because they want time to find the right man...[Read More] |
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| New blood test predicts early menopause |
| 28 June 2010 - by Dr Gabrielle Samuel |
| Women could soon find out how long they have left to start a family thanks to a blood test that determines when they will go through menopause....[Read More] |
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| Italians revealed as Europe's biggest fertility tourists |
| 28 June 2010 - by Antony Blackburn-Starza |
| Couples from Italy are at the top of the list of foreign couples seeking fertility treatment abroad, researchers report today at the 26th Annual Meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE), in Rome...[Read More] |
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| 1,000 Genomes Project completes first phase |
| 28 June 2010 - by Dr Vivienne Raper |
| The largest study of genetic differences between people to date - the 1,000 Genomes Project - has completed its pilot studies. The data is now freely available...[Read More] |
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| £25 million to study genetics of African diseases |
| 28 June 2010 - by Ben Jones |
| The Wellcome Trust has joined forces with the US National Institute of Health (NIH) to coordinate a major new genetics study in Africa....[Read More] |
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| FDA questions five US companies about unapproved genetic testing |
| 28 June 2010 - by Seil Collins |
| The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has told five US companies that the genetic tests they sell directly to consumers are unapproved....[Read More] |
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| Overweight women risk IVF miscarriage |
| 28 June 2010 - by Dr Charlotte Maden |
| Women using assisted reproductive technology (ART) to conceive have a higher rate of miscarriage if they are overweight, say a group of UK scientists....[Read More] |
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| NHS to sequence the genes of 10,000 patients |
| 28 June 2010 - by Victoria Kay |
| A London NHS hospital has started sequencing the genomes of individual patients in order to gain a better understanding of the genetic factors involved in heart disease. Over the next decade, 10,000 patients at the Royal Brompton Hospital will have their 22,000 genes sequenced...[Read More] |
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| Sperm bank for Beautiful People launched |
| 28 June 2010 - by Kyrillos Georgiadis |
| A controversial dating website that only allows 'beautiful people' to join has launched a sperm and egg bank so that people can have 'beautiful children'...[Read More] |
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| No 'list' of conditions warranting late termination, experts advise |
| 28 June 2010 - by Laura Riley |
| The UK's Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) has released a Working Party report, Termination of Pregnancy for Fetal Abnormality. The report found that it was not 'realistic' to seek to produce a definitive list of conditions that constitute 'serious handicap' for clinicians to use in interpreting the legal grounds for abortion under the 1967 Abortion Act...[Read More] |
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