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Australia calls for overhaul as desperate parents spend thousands on unproven IVF treatments

May 18, 2019

William Longfield is a much-longed-for baby, but having him cost his parents all their savings, including their house deposit and even his mother's redundancy payout.

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Judge calls for review of birth certificate law for trans parents

February 28, 2019

A judge has called for a review of the law following the case of a trans man being unable to be recognised as the father

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Take part in a new study of co-parenting families!

February 05, 2019

A growing number of people are choosing to start their family together under a co-parenting arrangement.

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Single people can now become legal parents to a baby born through surrogacy

January 21, 2019

A remedial order has come into force that gives single people in the UK the same rights as couples to become the legal parents of their surrogate-born children.

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A Cooling device for testicles has been invented

January 06, 2019

A Cooling device for testicles has been invented by scientists in a bid to boost men's fertility

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Birth rates in the UK and nearly half of world’s countries plunge, forcing more reliance on immigration, report warns

November 25, 2018

Fertility rates falling for decades mean many countries including the UK are now only growing because of stagnating life-expectancy increases and migration

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Men's sperm is best in spring and autumn new study finds

October 15, 2018

Sperm counts and quality of sperm is affected by the seasons a new study has shown.

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NHS being taken to court over transgender fertility treatment equality

September 22, 2018

NHS England is to be taken to court by the UK’s equality watchdog for failing to offer fertility services to transgender patients.

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Experts warn against using genomic screening for all newborns

August 20, 2018

A new report has advised against the genomic sequencing of all newborns, a venture that researchers and clinicians have been debating since the cost of sequencing began to decrease.

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