Abstract

The Future of in Vitro Fertilisation: Bright or A Little Dulled?

Highlights

  • In the early 1980’s I was working with Bob Edwards and Patrick Steptoe at Bourn Hall Clinic as one of the first ever Clinical Embryologists in the world

  • The overall live birth rate in those early days was around 30% when considering all age groups and all diagnoses. This overall live birth rate has not changed since these early days despite the efforts to improve it and despite the fact that some clinics make unsupported claims of high live birth rates

  • In the late 1980’s the regulation of IVF began to develop in the UK firstly with the Interim Licensing Authority which blossomed into the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA)

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Introduction

In the early 1980’s I was working with Bob Edwards and Patrick Steptoe at Bourn Hall Clinic as one of the first ever Clinical Embryologists in the world. There are patients who attend fertility clinics describing ‘infertility’ who are immediately placed on an IVF treatment cycle. Many clinics boast that they use ICSI in almost all patients and patients see this as a good thing because of the way in which it is sold to them as a ‘guarantee’ of fertilisation.

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