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The Progress Educational Trust podcast
PET (the Progress Educational Trust) is an independent charity that improves choices for people affected by infertility and genetic conditions.
On this podcast, you can hear the latest PET discussions of scientific, ethical, legal and policy issues in fertility, genetics, genomics and embryo/stem cell research.
These discussions feature experts and advocates from around the world, as well as contributions from patients and the broader public.
Episodes
- The Progress Educational Trust podcast
The Genetics of Infertility: Causes, Choices and Treatments
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast discusses the genetics and genomics of infertility, including arguments for – and against –…
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Donor Conception and Genetic Disease: Lessons to Be Learned from Donor 7069
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast examines the case of a donor whose sperm was used to conceive at least 197 children in at least 14…
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Accessing Fertility Treatment: Challenges and Solutions for LGBTQ+ Communities
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast explores legal, practical and other challenges faced by LGBTQ+ people seeking fertility treatment…
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What Is the Impact of Fertility Treatment on the Health of Resulting Children?
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast discusses what is known about the short-term and long-term health – both physical and…
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What Is the Impact of Fertility Treatment on Patient Health?
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast discusses what is known about the impact of IVF – and assisted conception more broadly – on the…
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What Does the NICE Fertility Guideline Update Mean for You?
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast discusses the newly updated Fertility Guideline published by the UK's National Institute for…
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Male Infertility: Today's Insights, Tomorrow's Treatments
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast features researchers and practitioners at the forefront of tackling male infertility. Aspects…
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Fertility Treatment and Stress: Patients, Practitioners and Outcomes
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast discusses causes and consequences of stress, in the context of (in)fertility and assisted…
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Ancestry, Ethnicity, IVF Outcomes: Why Do Some Patients Fare Better than Others?
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast discusses disparities in IVF outcomes, and experiences of fertility treatment, between people with…
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Understanding Egg Donation: The Give and Take
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast discusses the needs and interests of everyone involved in egg donation – including donors…
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Fertility and the Workplace: Can Employers Help? Should They?
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast discusses what employers can and should do, for employees who are receiving fertility treatment or…
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Donor Conception and Genomics: Sperm, Eggs, Embryos, Mitochondria
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast discusses the genetics and genomics of various forms of donor conception, and related scientific…
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Polygenic Risk, Polygenic Scores, Polygenic Indices: What Are They? What Should Be Done with Them?
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast discusses the science and ethics of PGT-P – a controversial form of preimplantation genetic…
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The Origins of Preimplantation Genetic Testing
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast features Professor Alan Handyside – a pioneer of preimplantation genetic testing – explaining how…
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PGT-A as an IVF Add-On: 25 Years of Controversy
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast discusses longstanding controversies surrounding PGT-A (preimplantation genetic testing for…
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Expanded Carrier Screening: How Is It Used? What Are the Ethical Implications?
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast discusses the use of expanded carrier screening to test prospective parents, and/or donors of…
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Rare Metabolic Diseases: Advancing Understanding, Improving Outcomes
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast discusses how to improve diagnosis, treatment and support for people affected by rare and…
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Rare Disease Genomic Testing: How Do We Make Access Equitable and Timely?
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast discusses how we might improve access to genetic and genomic testing, and related services, for…
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Mitochondrial Donation: Does It Work? What Next?
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast discusses the use of mitochondrial donation to avoid mitochondrial disease, with speakers…
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Robert Edwards at 100: Remembering an IVF Visionary
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast marks the 100th birthday of the late IVF pioneer Professor Sir Robert Edwards, known widely (and…
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40 Years of the Surrogacy Arrangements Act: What Next for Surrogacy?
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast marks 40 years since the UK introduced dedicated legislation to govern surrogacy, and explores…
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Genomes, Feedback and Follow-On: The Long-Term Impact of Our Future Health
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast features leading figures in health-related policy, research and ethics discussing the long-term…
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Diversity in Health Data: Achieving Benefit for All
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast explores what needs to be done – and why – to ensure that people of diverse ancestries and social…
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Lifestyle, Obesity, Diabetes: Optimising IVF Outcomes for Patients
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast discusses implications – for patients, practitioners and policymakers – of health conditions, and…
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IVF and Miscarriage: Reducing Risks, Providing Support
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast discusses pregnancy loss in relation to fertility treatment, including how to identify and reduce…
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Our Future Health, UK Biobank, Genomics England: Exploring the Impact
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast explains and explores the different approaches of the UK's largest genomics projects, and the…
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Fertility in Flux: What Can State-Funded IVF Do for Population Growth?
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast is the second instalment in a two-part discussion exploring whether assisted conception can…
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Is Fertility Treatment a Solution to Population Decline?
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast is the first instalment in a two-part discussion exploring whether assisted conception can address…
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What Can the Fertility Sector Learn from the Infected Blood Scandal and Inquiry?
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast discusses lessons for the fertility sector from the UK's infected blood scandal, and from the…
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The Fertility Landscape for LGBTQ+ Communities: Barriers and Considerations
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast discusses how to improve access to – and quality of – fertility treatment for LGBTQ+ people…
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Preimplantation Genetic Testing: Barriers to Access
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast discusses access to and funding for preimplantation genetic testing (PGT), specifically in…
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10 Years of Womb Transplants: What Have We Learned? What Does the Future Hold?
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast features the medical pioneers responsible for the world's first live birth following a uterus…
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Whole Genome Sequencing at Birth: Implementing the Generation Study
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast discusses the Generation Study – an NHS-embedded research study which is sequencing the whole…
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Where Art Meets ART: Creative Exploration of Fertility Research and Treatment
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast discusses the use of artworks to improve understanding and advance knowledge of the causes of…
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IVF Add-Ons: Building Bridges between Clinics, Regulators and Patients
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast discusses how to address challenges raised by 'add-ons' to IVF treatment, while taking account of…
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10 Families and Counting: Time for Global Limits on Donor-Created (Half-) Siblings?
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast discusses whether there should be limits on the number of people – worldwide – who can be created…
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40 Years of Egg Donation and Counting: What Have We Learned? What Happens Next?
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast marks 40 years since the announcement – in Australia – that a child had been born following egg…
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Mary Warnock at 100: The Architect of Embryo Law
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast marks the 100th birthday of the late Baroness Mary Warnock. The discussion is chaired by Sarah…
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Welfare of the Fertility Patient: Spotting Signs and Treatment after Trauma
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast discusses how best to understand and address welfare issues in the context of fertility treatment…
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IVF Add-Ons: How Should We Score the HFEA's New Ratings System?
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast discusses recent changes to the way the UK's fertility regulator – the Human Fertilisation and…
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Fertility Treatment for Single People: Who Should Pay?
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast discusses whether – and in what circumstances – single people should be able to access publicly…
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Innovation from the Pandemic: From Video Appointments to Electronic Consent
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast discusses technologies and approaches that helped fertility patients and practitioners during the…
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Opening the Register: How to Handle Disclosure of Gamete Donor Information
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast discusses an imminent change that will have consequences for people involved in – and affected by…
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Small Change: Is It Time to Reconsider Compensation for Gamete Donors?
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast discusses levels of compensation for donors of sperm or eggs. The discussion is chaired by Sarah…
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The Women's Health Strategy
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast discusses the progress that the UK Government has made to date with its Women's Health Strategy…
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Counselling and Assisted Reproduction: When, Why and by Whom Should It Be Offered?
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast discusses different types of counselling that are sought, offered, recommended or required in…
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NHS Fertility Treatment: Wouldn't It Be NICE to Have a Workable Guideline?
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast discusses proposed changes to the law governing fertility treatment and embryo research. The…
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Surrogacy Law: What Is Intended... For Parents? For Surrogates? For Children?
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast discusses proposed changes to the law governing fertility treatment and embryo research. The…
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Your Chance for Change: Shaping the UK's Fertility and Embryo Law
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast discusses proposed changes to the law governing fertility treatment and embryo research. The…
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Fertility-Friendly Workplaces? Attitudes to Assisted Conception and Employment
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast discusses what employees and employers can – and should – expect from one another, if an employee…
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When to Stop Storage: Improving Conversations About Unused Embryos
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast discusses what happens to unused IVF embryos after fertility treatment is completed. The…
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Understanding Miscarriage: Pregnancy Loss after Fertility Treatment
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast discusses pregnancy loss in the context of fertility treatment. Issues explored include patients…
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100 Years of 'Daedalus': The Birth of Assisted Reproductive Technology
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast marks the centenary of JBS Haldane's Daedalus, a lecture – subsequently a book – that pioneered…
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Your Guide to Genetics and Genomics in the Fertility Clinic
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast explores and explains genetics/genomics in the context of assisted conception, including carrier…