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			<title>New guidelines on the use of preimplantation genetic screening</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/06/2008/#story_4244</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The British Fertility Society (BFS) has published new guidelines on the use of preimplantation genetic screening - PGS (see BBC news). PGS involves testing cells removed from early embryos produced during in vitro fertilisation (IVF) to detect chromosomal abnormalities prior to implantation. Embryos ... ]]></description>
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			<title>On deafness, disability and embryo selection</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/04/2008/#story_4073</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Amendments proposed last year in a review of the 1990 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act contain a new provision in relation to fertility treatment that has offended members of the deaf community and raises important questions about government policies on embryo selection and serious disability. ... ]]></description>
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			<title>The House of Lords debates the revised Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/12/2007/#story_3948</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Following scrutiny by the Joint Committee of both Houses of Parliament over the summer, the re-named Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill was introduced into the House of Lords in early November. Previous plans to merge the regulation of tissue and embryos and form a single regulatory authority,  ... ]]></description>
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			<title>PGD for familial hypercholsterolaemia approved</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/12/2007/#story_3947</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has granted a licence to University College Hospital in London, permitting pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) for familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH), an inherited condition typified by very high levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Commercial US stem cell bank condemned in UK</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/10/2007/#story_3842</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The UK media has widely reported on the disapproving reaction of scientists to the news that a private US company is to market a service to harvest and store stem cells from excess IVF embryos. Company StemLifeLine, which revealed the new service at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine con ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Government  response to scrutiny committee report on the Human Tissue and Embryos (Draft) Bill</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/10/2007/#story_3821</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Government plans to review legislation on assisted human reproduction and embryo research are one step closer with publication on 8 October 2007 of the Government&amp;rsquo;s response to the Parliamentary Scrutiny Committee&amp;rsquo;s report on the Human Tissue and Embryos (Draft) Bill. The principal recom ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Italian court ruling favours pre-implantation genetic diagnosis</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/10/2007/#story_3820</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ In Italy, a Sardinian court has ruled that gynaecologist Giovanni Monni must provide pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) for a couple who are beta-thalassaemia carriers, the BMJ has reported [Turone F (2007) BMJ 335, 687]. Beta-thalassaemia is an autosomal recessive genetic disorder caused by m ... ]]></description>
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			<title>NIH plans to implement presidental stem cell Executive Order</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/10/2007/#story_3813</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Last month the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) published its plan to implement an Executive Order from President Bush to explore methods to expand the number of approved pluripotent stem cell lines &amp;lsquo;without creating a human embryo for research purposes or destroying, discarding, or subj ... ]]></description>
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			<title>IVF embryos to undergo screening for early-onset Alzheimer's disease</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/10/2007/#story_3778</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ A UK couple has received approval from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) to have their IVF embryos screened or early onset Alzheimer&amp;rsquo;s disease (EOAD). &amp;nbsp;Alzheimer&amp;rsquo;s disease is characterised by adult-onset progressive dementia. The majority of cases are thought t ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Cheaper fertility treatment offered for egg-sharing</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/09/2007/#story_3720</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Women aged 21-35 attending the Newcastle Fertility Centre (NFC) in the north of England are to be offered reduced price in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment in exchange for donating some of their oocytes (eggs) for research (see BBC news). Women who agree to donate half of the eggs harvested as pa ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Parliamentary Joint Select Committee report on Human Tissue and Embryos (Draft) Bill</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/08/2007/#story_3567</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The UK Parliamentary Joint Select Committee published its report on the Human Tissue and Embryos (Draft) Bill on 1 August 2007. The Committee has gathered an impressive array of evidence, engaged in novel methods of public engagement (see previous news), and has produced a thoughtful and balanced re ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Human Tissue and Embryos Bill consultation</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/06/2007/#story_3431</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The Parliamentary Joint Committee on the Draft Human Tissue and Embryos Bill has launched an econsultation forum which will run until 26 June. The terms of the consultation is limited to four areas which have already been scrutinised by Committee in oral evidence sessions. Firstly, the Committee has ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Human Tissue and Embryos (Draft) Bill: Joint Parliamentary Committee publishes call for evidence</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/06/2007/#story_3404</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Ensuring that the law takes account of relevant scientific developments and changing public opinion is one aim of the draft Human Tissue and Embryos Bill, published on 17May 2007. The draft Bill will update parts of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act (1990) and the Human Tissue Act (2004) to ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Embryo screening for hereditary breast cancer</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/04/2007/#story_3294</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ A doctor from University College Hospital, London has submitted an application to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) for permission to perform prenatal genetic diagnosis (PGD) on embryos for the purpose of identifying mutations in the BRCA1 gene associated with hereditary breast ... ]]></description>
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			<title>HFEA to allow women to donate their eggs for research purposes</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/03/2007/#story_3172</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has, after a public consultation exercise, decided to allow women to donate their eggs for research projects (see press statement). As this form of altruistic donation raises ethical issues, additional safeguards will be put into place to ensur ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Review of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act is published</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/12/2006/#story_2970</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The long awaited proposals for revision of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology    Act were published today in the form of a white    paper which contains proposals to revise the existing Act. The white paper    also establishes the statutory basis and chronology for a new regulatory body    (the  ... ]]></description>
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			<title>European Commission adopts second technical Directive on tissues and cells</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/11/2006/#story_2796</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The European Commission has announced the adoption of the second set of technical rules, Commission Directive 2006/86/EC, implementing the European Tissues and Cells Directive (Directive 2004/23/EC) (see press release). The new Directive addresses the processing, preservation, storage and distributi ... ]]></description>
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			<title>HFEA consults on donating eggs for research</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/09/2006/#story_2636</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ HFEA consults on donating eggs for research  The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has released a consultation document, Donating eggs for research: safeguarding donors, seeking comments on whether egg donation for research should take place and if so, what safeguards should be put ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Saviour sibling case causes controversy in Switzerland</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/08/2006/#story_2608</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 09 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Swiss parents of an ill child have practiced a form of ‘reproductive tourism’ by traveling to Belgium to have PGD and tissue typing, which is illegal in Switzerland [Duke, K. Lancet 368;355-356]. Their new daughter, Elodie, was born from an embryo chosen to be a tissue match for her elder brother, N ... ]]></description>
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			<title>HFEA licenses offering discount IVF treatment for egg donations for research</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/07/2006/#story_2587</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has issued a license to the North East England Stem Cell Institute in Newcastle to allow researchers to ask women undergoing fertility treatment to donate eggs for research purposes in exchange for having the cost of their treatment reduced (se ... ]]></description>
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