Again and again the issue of success rates with treatment comes up, as it has done recently with Lord Robert Winston reported as finding a set of results at a clinic as “incredible”. So how can donors work out where their gift will be most likely to help someone have a baby? I would always …
Monthly Archive: August 2011
Aug
22
Nice one, senor…
Madrid-based football club Getafe, the Spanish equivalent of Charlton Athletic, has come up with a novel way to recruit more fans – asking their current fans to become sperm donors. They’re promoting annual season tickets with the release of a video on YouTube, suggesting that fans should do the honourable thing to help increase membership …
Aug
15
Tell early, talk often
By Kriss Fearon The message of a new study on donor-conceived people reported in Human Reproduction is that donor-conceived people prefer to be told while they are young, and to be given the freedom to express curiosity about their donor. This is the largest survey to date of people conceived through donor insemination, with over …
Aug
08
Small steps to sperm donation
On the 13th July, I set off on a week long cycle trip – a total of 473 miles around Scotland to raise money for the NGDT. Fuelled by gunpowder coffee and a jammy croissant second breakfast, I sped off, excited by the fact I had reached my £3000 target that morning. Over the next …
Aug
01
Abortion after fertility treatment?
Much has been made in the news recently about the number of abortions that take place after IVF treatment. A small number of those pregnancies were conceived with donor gametes. Is this an issue that should concern donors? First, let’s put the headlines in context. According to the UK National Statistics Office, there were 198,500 …