Pioneer in the laboratory of life

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Professor Ian Craft has consulting rooms at the London Gynaecology and Fertility Centre, Harley Street. He treats women of all ages for infertility as he believes doctors should not moralise about who should receive treatment and cases should be decided individually. Nearly 30% succeed in pregnancy but the likelihood diminishes with age. His team was responsible for the first test-tube twins in 1982, triplets in 1984, the world's first birth following egg and sperm transfer into the uterus, the first Gift births, the first donor egg birth, the first frozen donor embryo and the first ICSI technique.

Care and treatment, Ethical aspects, Infertility, Gamete intrafallopian transfer, Craft, Ian

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How Drew exercised his brain

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The Centre for Brain Injury and Rehabilitation (Bird), in Chester, England, works with brain-damaged children to reactivate their adult reflexes. The charity prescribes a programme of exercises which can be done at home in 90 minutes a day so that the child can continue with special education and therapies. Clinical and developmental psychologist David McGlown founded Bird and developed the exercises, which inhibit the infantile reflexes that recur when a normal person is brain-damaged.

Training, Brain-damaged children, Reflexes

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'A decision of faith and optimism.' (Allison Burden, who is to have a child with her Tutsi husband and raise it in Rwanda)(Interview)

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A mixed marriage can bring many unexpected pleasures, according to Allison Burden, who has a Tutsi husband and is shortly to give birth to their child in the UK. After the child is born, the couple intend to return to Rwanda. They are aware that they could face considerable danger there, but feel that having a child is the right move for them. Her husband's family have already had to develop strong survival skills, and she feels that she will be safe with him.

Social aspects, Family, Rwanda, Tutsi (African people), Burden, Allison

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