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2008
Fertility Treatments Help Cancer and Rare Diseases (23 July)
Two proposed changes to fertility treatment practices could help infertile cancer sufferers to still have babies and also to help treat some very rare diseases, according to two discussion papers released today.

The first proposal would allow women who have frozen their own eggs before undergoing cancer treatment to now use the eggs to create embryos and, if successful, ultimately give birth.

The other allows women to screen their embryos so that once the baby is born, umbilical cord stem cells can be used to treat non-inherited disease in close family members.

2007

ACART issues guidelines on assisted reproductive procedures (23 Nov 2007)

The independent Advisory Committee on Assisted Reproductive Technology (ACART) yesterday issued new guidelines to regulate surrogacy arrangements and donations of sperm or eggs between certain family members.

Your views are sought on uses of Assisted Reproductive Technology in New Zealand (6 Jul 2007)

ACART, the Advisory Committee on Assisted Reproductive Technology, today released the consultation paper, Advice on Aspects of Assisted Reproductive Technology: A Consultation Paper on Policy Issues.

Should human gamete and embryo research take place in New Zealand, and if so, under what conditions? (7 Feb 2007)

A series of public meetings are about to get underway to help encourage, develop and inform discussion about human gamete and embryo research.

2006

New Zealanders' views on human gamete and embryo research wanted (15 Dec 2006)

New Zealanders’ views on allowing human gamete and embryo research and, if so, the conditions which should apply, are being sought by the Government’s advisory committee on assisted reproductive technology.

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