Did you know that if you donated sperm or eggs anonymously before the 2005 law change – which removed anonymity for donors – then you can ‘re-register’ your information so any ...
At Manchester Fertility Services we pride ourselves on the fact that we have some of the best experts in their field, and so we’re proud to announce that Joanne Adams, our Senior Andrologist, has been selected as a member of the prestigious new HFEA National Donation Strategy Group...
For the first time we’re now able to offer women who need a donor egg no waiting list for treatment.
This is amazing news because for so long, there has been such a shortage of donor eggs in the UK and it’s why we’ve campaigned for more donors through this site. But whilst sperm donor numbers have always remained steady, egg donor numbers were always typically low.
The HFEA wants to hear from you over plans to overhaul the current legislation surrounding sperm and egg donors.
Its consultation is now underway, focusing on the level of compensation for donors, th...
We’re always told that exercise is good for you, but could your choice of sport be damaging your fertility? New research appears to suggest that men who cycle for more than five hours a week have fewer and less active sperm than men who don’t exercise at all. Over 2,200 men who were all attending fertility clinics were surveyed in the Boston University study, with each giving a sperm sample for testing...
Russian women are set to fulfil the demand for donor eggs in the UK after the HFEA granted a UK fertility clinic permission to import eggs from a Moscow-based clinic...
It’s no secret that there’s a UK-wide shortage of sperm donors, but it appears that couples in Scotland face the longest wait if they need to use donor sperm to get pregnant...
One of the things all egg donors need to be aware of are the possible risks attached to donating eggs. Donating your eggs isn’t as simple a procedure as donating sperm. To be an egg donor, you have to take drugs which stimulate your ovaries, so you produce more eggs than normal. You then go through a retrieval procedure to get the eggs from your uterus...
Whilst the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) reviews whether ‘expense’ payments to sperm and egg donors should be increased, leading fertility campaigners continue to push their message about the need for greater recognition for both egg and sperm donors...
A young couple from Staffordshire turned to their local newspaper recently to try and find an egg donor. The couple have spent all of this year in second place on their local hospital waiting list for a donor egg, having been told they could be waiting an ‘indefinable’ amount of time for an egg donor to come forward due to the acute shortage of egg donors...