Manchester Fertility Services Blog

Written by Professor Brian Lieberman, Founder of Manchester Fertility Services

Posts Tagged ‘Egg’

Egg Sharing at Manchester Fertility Services

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

North West infertility clinic, Manchester Fertility Services is offering couples reduced rate IVF through a new scheme which aims to help women who need donor eggs. The new egg-sharing programme is designed to help couples who need IVF but can’t afford private treatment. The programme gives them a subsidised rate for a cycle of IVF if they agree to donate some of their eggs collected during the IVF process, which are not being used for their own treatment, to other infertile...

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Embryo Freezing and Frozen Embryo Transfer – What it means and Why it’s done?

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

Embryo freezing is an option if you’re undergoing IVF and wish to have more children in the future. It gives you the chance to give your child a biological sibling – known as a conceptual twin – in future years, without the need to go through the whole IVF process again. As such it avoids repeated ovarian stimulation, egg retrieval, sperm donation and...

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Human egg raffle – should a child be the ultimate prize?

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

A London IVF clinic has sparked controversy this week by offering childless couples the chance to win an American donor egg of their choice. Paying egg donors for their eggs is illegal in the UK, but the clinic is offering the winner free treatment in America to sidestep existing European laws. The winner also gets to select an egg based on race, upbringing and education, even being able to look at photographs of donors as children to pick which they like the look...

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