This week I feel ashamed. This newspaper has published evidence of widespread bad practice in my own speciality of medicine, infertility treatment. And I feel angry because the Government’s regulatory body, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has been inadequate. … Continue reading
In 2014 Professor Winston launched the free, confidential Ask Robert Winston service through the Genesis Research Trust. He talks to the Guardian about the reasons for setting up this facility. Continue reading
A guide from a leading British expert on the practice and ethics of assisted fertility techniques. Subjects include the latest in vitro fertilisation and gamete intra-fallopian transfer techniques, egg donation and embryo freezing. Winston also looks at the possible causes … Continue reading
Professor Robert Winston talks to Richard about the benefits of giving women up to the age of 42 IVF on the NHS, as recommended by NICE; and recounts the initial reaction to IVF in the 1980s.
We are all very aware of how underfunded the NHS is. Recently, to help reduce costs, the availability of IVF treatment on the NHS has been restricted or halted in 13 areas in England creating something akin to a postcode … Continue reading
The Charity The Genesis Research Trust supports high quality research into reproductive diseases which primarily affect women. The trust is renowned for its support of work into premature birth, foetal damage and genetic defects, miscarriage and stillbirth, stem cell biology … Continue reading
BABIES are noisy, smelly, highly inconvenient, cause sleeplessness, destroy free time and are extremely expensive. Yet we feel like melting when we see them: their wide, gummy smiles, the adorable way they curl their tiny fingers around your thumb. This … Continue reading
Robert visited York Union for a Q&A with students covering a range of topics from his work in IVF to his views on mitochondrial transfer. To read full coverage of the evening, see the student newspaper, Nouse.
Ahead of Parliament’s debate on mitochondrial transfer, Robert was asked to write an article for the Telegraph.
Following the Government’s decision to grant a licence for mitochondrial transfer to be used in the hope of preventing mitochondrial disease, Robert spoke with Zeinab Badawi on BBC World’s HARDtalk. “We are not here to supplant the work of God,” … Continue reading