Welfare of the Fertility Patient: Spotting Signs and Treatment after Trauma
This PET event looked at the ways that trauma can affect a patient's experience of treatment, and explored the ways that professionals who work with them can handle this...
A UK non-departmental public body established by an Act of Parliament in 1990, which regulates treatment using eggs and sperm, and treatment and research involving human embryos. It sets standards for, and issues licences to, fertility treatment and embryo research centres.
by Ochuko Oyeye
This PET event looked at the ways that trauma can affect a patient's experience of treatment, and explored the ways that professionals who work with them can handle this...
Heralding the technology behind SCBEMs as 'one of the 21st century's most dramatic scientific developments', Professor Emily Jackson's lecture was packed with fascinating legal and ethical commentary...
by Hannah Flynn
Homerton Fertility Centre in London has had its licence suspended by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority because of 'significant concerns about the clinic'...
by Hannah Flynn
Guy's and St Thomas' Assisted Conception Unit, London, is the subject of an investigation by the HFEA into delays in informing women that their frozen eggs and embryos could be affected by a manufacturing error...
A recent PET event saw a lively discussion of the UK fertility regulator's new ratings system for 'add-ons' to IVF treatment...
An online dashboard featuring data on fertility treatment outcomes in the UK, broken down by region, has been launched by the Human Fertilisation Embryology Authority...
The fertility sector has developed rapidly in the 50 years since its inception, yet old-fashioned mores and bureaucracy govern many patients' access and experience, argues Kevin McEleny…
The cost of accessing private fertility treatment in England can vary by up to 30 percent, depending on where you live...
The third session of the PET 2023 Annual Conference 'Challenges and Changes: What's Happening Across Europe?' brought together three eminent speakers working in reproductive medicine, fertility preservation and ethics…
The fourth session of the PET 2023 Annual Conference 'Looking to the Law: In the Clinic, in the Lab, in the Court' featured expert speakers in areas of embryo research, fertility counselling, and reproductive medical law...
BioNews, published by the Progress Educational Trust (PET), provides news and comment on genetics, assisted conception, embryo/stem cell research and related areas.