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There’s big money in IVF – but not for the women who hand over their eggs

Donation is gruelling and risky, but the reward wouldn’t even buy a new iPhone

The Guardian - UK · Aug 11, 2024

Costly add-on offered by IVF clinics ‘does not increase odds of having a baby’

Timelapse imaging offers no benefit, despite being sold as an add-on service by many UK private fertility clinics, scientists have found.

The Independent UK · Jul 18, 2024

Sharp fall in number of NHS IVF procedures across UK, report finds

Women have been left unable to access treatment or forced to pay for it privately

The Guardian - UK · Jul 17, 2024

UK fertility treatment comparison tool featuring IVF data launched

Dashboard allows people to explore data including egg and sperm donors from 1991 onwards

The Guardian - UK · Jan 30, 2024

Longing for a baby? The IVF postcode lottery can have a high price

Figures reveal huge differences across England with private clinics free to charge whatever they want. So it is vital to shop around

The Guardian - UK · Jan 22, 2024

Call to help UK IVF patients donate unused embryos after shortage hinders research

Scientists complain after ‘sheer waste’ of human embryos discarded despite patients’ wishes

The Guardian - UK · Dec 6, 2023

I was conceived with donor sperm – and as a teenager I found out I have 14 ‘diblings’

Now, a law change to remove anonymity from donors at birth raises complex questions for donor families like mine, says recent graduate Freya Stuart-Hopkins

The Guardian - UK · Nov 22, 2023

Egg and sperm donors in UK to lose right to anonymity at birth under new plans

Regulator says access to DNA testing and genetic matching already allows identification without formally applying for details at age 18

The Guardian - UK · Nov 14, 2023

Fertility regulator calls for changes to donor anonymity laws

The recommendations aim to better protect patients and ‘modernise’ the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act.

The Independent UK · Nov 14, 2023

Regulator updates rating system to warn of unproven fertility treatments

The fertility regulator has raised concerns about clinics ‘unnecessarily offering unproven treatments to patients’.

The Independent UK · Oct 18, 2023