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Southend health bosses looking to change rules on IVF 6:00am Wednesday 30th July 2014 in News By Helen Barnett WOMEN trying to get pregnant in their twenties and thirties could have less chance after moves were made to limit IVF treatment. Southends Clinical Commissioning Group has launched a consultation over plans to limit woman aged 23 to 39 to just two cycles of IVF treatment on the NHS, so it can offer woman aged between 40 and 42 one round of treatment. IVF helps couples with fertility problems by fertilising a womans egg with sperm in a laboratory before returning the embryo to the womans womb to develop. The groups plans would go against guidelines set out by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, which suggests women aged 23 to 39 should be offered three cycles of IVF treatment. Susan Seenan, co-chair of the National Infertility Awareness Campaign, said: Not everybody needs three cycles, but from a patients perspective its knowing you have the third cycle option that can make all the difference. Knowing the second cycle is your last shot puts extra pressure on you. Three chances gives people a reasonable chance of success. They can move … Continue reading →

A new IVF technique to check embryos for genetic disorders before they're implanted has had its first success, after doctors in London reported the first pregnancy in Europe from the procedure. The technique lets doctors select embryos that are free from dangerous mutations carried by one or both parents, even if the exact nature of the mutation is unknown. Experts at the Centre for Reproductive and Genetic Health (CRGH) said Carmen Meagu, 26, and her husband Gabriel had a high chance of passing on a lethal disease to their child. They are now 17 weeks into the pregnancy. Normal embryo testing requires weeks of laboratory work , but new technique 'karyomapping' takes just two weeks to complete, allowing couples to be tested without having to break their IVF treatment cycle. Meagu has a 50 percent chance of passing on a condition called Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, a muscular dystrophy disease that killed her father in his 50s but only mildly affects her. The centre's director Paul Serhal said the technique is likely to replace more traditional ways of testing embryos because it is faster, more powerful and no more expensive. It is to be available on the NHS in the UK. WENN.com … Continue reading →

As the nations assistedreproduction experts weigh whether obese women should be refused fertility treatments, a new study finds obese women are as likely to get pregnant and have a baby following IVF as women of normal weight. Dalhousie University researchers who looked at 752 women who underwent IVF, or invitro-fertilization, at a private fertility clinic in Halifax found obese women do not require higher doses of fertility drugs. There were also no significant differences in the odds of achieving a pregnancy or live birth between normal weight, overweight and obese women. Growing numbers of obese women are seeking treatment for infertility. But some IVF clinics in Canada are imposing strict BMI cutoffs, a controversial practice that is expected to resurface at the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Societys annual meeting in September. The British Fertility Society recommended in 2006 that women with a BMI, or body mass index, greater than 35 be denied IVF. Some clinics in New Zealand have a BMI cutoff of 32. But the Halifax team says their findings suggest that there may be insufficient justification for placing these arbitrary BMI restrictions on IVF treatment access. Other fertility experts said the study was too small to draw conclusions, … Continue reading →

As the nation's assisted reproduction experts weigh whether obese women should be refused fertility treatments, a new study finds obese women are as likely to get pregnant and have a baby following IVF as women of normal weight. Dalhousie University researchers who looked at 752 women who underwent IVF, or invitro-fertilization, at a private fertility clinic in Halifax found obese women do not require higher doses of fertility drugs. There were also no significant differences in the odds of achieving a pregnancy or live birth between normal weight, overweight and obese women. Growing numbers of obese women are seeking treatment for infertility. But some IVF clinics in Canada are imposing strict BMI cutoffs, a controversial practice that is expected to resurface at the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society's annual meeting in September. The British Fertility Society recommended in 2006 that women with a BMI, or body mass index, greater than 35 be denied IVF. Some clinics in New Zealand have a BMI cutoff of 32. But the Halifax team says their findings suggest "that there may be insufficient justification for placing these arbitrary BMI restrictions on IVF treatment access." Other fertility experts said the study was too small to draw … Continue reading →

A BAN on IVF for couples who already have a child is to be reviewed by NHS bosses, the Sunday Mail can reveal. Campaigners fear up to one in six couples in Scotland struggle to conceive naturally. But couples have been denied IVF treatment if either partner has a child from a previous relationship. Now health chiefs have pledged to consider scrapping the child in the home rule. The Scottish Government last year capped IVF treatments at two per couple in a bid to drive down waiting lists, make the system fairer and stop a postcode lottery for treatment. Changes included offering women aged between 40 and 42 one full cycle of treatment and a ban on couples who smoke, drink or are obese until they changed their lifestyle. The National Infertility Group, set up by Holyrood in 2010, will carry out the review and consider raising the number of cycles to three. Infertility Network Scotlands Gwenda Burns said: Couples being denied treatment when there is a child living in the home is unfair. The National Infertility Group agreed with this in their report in May 2013 but said cutting waiting lists was the priority. A review is due to … Continue reading →

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Donna Turner is distraught after she was refused IVF treatment with dead husband's sperm [INS Picture Desk/INS News Agency] Nursery nurse Donna Turner, 32, said she is distraught because she won't be able to fulfil her late husband Paul's dying wish. Married for eight months and desperate for children, surgeons even reversed Mr Turner's vasectomy as he lay dying from bowel cancer, so that the sperm could be harvested and frozen. The heartbroken new bride said that NHS staff had turned her down for IVF treatment because, as a widow, she is now officially single. "I wanted his child more than anything. Now my goal is to have this baby which I promised him on his death bed," said Mrs Turner. "For the names it was going to be Paignton-Louise for a girl and Tommy for a boy. "Then the Clinical Commissioning Group refused to fund me. They said I couldn't have the IVF because they class me as single and because he has got a son from a previous relationship years ago." She insisted: "I'm not single, I'm widowed." After meeting on New Year's Day in 2010, Mr Turner popped the question at a New Year's Eve party before … Continue reading →

Free cycle of IVF offered to couples 9:50am Thursday 24th July 2014 in Ryedale news PEOPLE living in Scarborough and Ryedale will be eligible for a free cycle of IVF. As previously proposed, NHS Scarborough and Ryedale CCG Governing Body yesterday officially confirmed the reintroduction of In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) treatment for women in the area. The Governing Body has agreed to commission one cycle for 18-to-42-year-olds. A commitment was given to review 12 months after implementation with a view to increasing the number of cycles funded in 2016/17 if financially viable once demand is established. Carrie Wollerton, executive nurse for the CCG, said: The reintroduction of IVF for couples in Scarborough and Ryedale should be seen as really positive step forward. Its been a number of years since couples in this area had any possibility of receiving NHS funded IVF treatment and this decision brings us in line with other CCGs in the area. Our main aim as the local leader of the NHS is, where possible, to improve access to treatments and reduce variation in services compared with other parts of the country. The Vale of York CCG - until recently the only CCG not to offer a … Continue reading →

Nursery nurse Donna Turner has been refused the chance to have her dead husband's baby - because NHS bosses said it would make her a single parent. Today the distraught new bride told how she had been refused IVF treatment using sperm taken from her husband of only eight months, before he died. Surgeons had even reversed his vasectomy as he lay dying from bowel cancer, just months after the couple wed, so that the sperm could be harvested and frozen to fulfil the couple's desperate wish to have a baby. The 32-year-old said that NHS staff had turned her down for IVF treatment because, as a widow, she is now officially single. Donna married Paul Turner in April 2012, but just eight months later he died after being diagnosed with cancer. Having got as far as discussing names for their unborn child, Paul's dying wish was for Donna to have it using his frozen sperm. Paul even had a vasectomy reversed to allow the procedure to happen. However, just months after the 39-year-old's death Donna was denied the 3,500 pounds treatment by her local NHS commissioning group. Still wearing his wedding ring on a chain around her neck, Donna … Continue reading →