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Donor sibling treatment on the NHS
25th November 2004:
Three UK health authorities have agreed to fund controversial 'saviour sibling' treatment on the NHS, with another eight or nine considering a similar move. The process will be used to treat children suffering mainly from genetic blood disorders. It...
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(published: Telegraph 2004; 25 November, Guardian 2004; 25 November, bbc.co.uk 2002; 20 December)
Submission from CMF in response to the Human Genetics Commission on Choosing the Future: Genetics and Reproductive Decision Making (15/11/2004)
Introduction Christian Medical Fellowship is interdenominational and has as members more than 5,000 British Christian doctors in all branches of the profession. Through the International Christian Medical and Dental Association...
Landmark PGD licence
2nd November 2004:
The Human Fertilitisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has granted a licence to a London clinic to screen embryos for an inherited form of bowel cancer. This landmark decision could lead to mass screening of embryos for genetic ...
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(published: BMJ 2004;329:1061, Guardian 2004; 2 November)
Christian Medical Fellowship Rues Relaxation of Rules Governing 'Designer Babies' (21/07/2004)
CMF calls for full parliamentary review of Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act The Christian Medical Fellowship has criticised the expected ruling by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA)...
Submission from CMF to the Human Genetics Commission on 'The Supply of Genetic Tests Direct to the Public' (04/10/2002)
Introduction Christian Medical Fellowship (CMF) is interdenominational and has as members over 5,000 doctors throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland who are Christians and who desire their professional and personal...
Submission from CMF to the Advisory Committee on Genetic Testing on its 'Draft Code of Practice for Human Genetic Testing Offered Commercially Direct to the Public' (01/10/2002)
Introduction Christian Medical Fellowship is interdenominational and has as members well over 4,000 British doctors who are Christians and who desire their professional and personal lives to be governed...
Personal Submission from the General Secretary of CMF to the HFEA and the Advisory Committee on Genetic Testing on 'Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD)' (10/11/1999)
This is a personal submission from Peter Saunders MBChB FRACS, General Secretary of CMF Introduction This is a personal submission from Mr Peter Saunders MBChB FRACS. I am a qualified...
Search and destroy The Human Genome Project's aim of locating all our 100,000 genes (including those causing or predisposing to about 6,000 inherited diseases) is already well underway and should be largely fulfilled by 2004. In the last eight years about 30 major gene companies have been launched and over 2,000...
When I discovered I was pregnant, it was Christmas Eve. This was our first baby and the first grandchild. The excitement of the first kicks came at eighteen weeks exactly. On the Monday of Holy Week I grew anxious that the baby had not moved for some hours. My midwife...
Abortion has been for many years an area of ethical concern, and for many Christians an issue of a clear moral nature. We shake our heads at the horrific numbers of foetuses killed since the 1967 Abortion Act. Some seek to lobby Parliament and get back to the roots of...
