This is the fourth in a series of videos filmed at the Progress Educational Trust (PET)'s recent public debate 'Fertility Treatment Add-Ons: Do They Add Up?'. (If you cannot see the video below, click here to view it.)
The video features Dr Raj Mathur, Consultant Gynaecologist and Lead for Reproductive Medicine at St Mary's Hospital in Manchester, who addresses controversies surrounding IVF 'add-ons' and argues that the fertility sector has a problem.
The video was produced by Annabel Slater, Genetics Editor at PET and BioNews.
The UK's fertility regulator, the HFEA, says it will be investigating a series of allegations concerning the fertility industry made by the Daily Mail newspaper last week...
The controversial issue of IVF 'add-ons' – techniques and treatments offered to fertility patients on top of standard IVF – has been the subject of intense debate and media attention since last November's BBC Panorama's documentary, which claimed that many techniques advertised on fertility clinics websites were not backed up by good scientific evidence of success...
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