試験管ベビーから30年

IVF 30 years on - Telegraph
ワタスが初めて試験管ベビーのニュース見た時、試験管の中で赤ちゃんが育ってるイメージだったんですが、単に受精させただけだったんだって。あの時のルイーズちゃんはもう30歳で1児の母で、お誕生会には彼女の生まれるきっかけを作ったエドワーズ博士がお呼ばれするらしい。

英国で体外受精ってすごい多いんだね。

Today that figure has more than doubled. Currently, some 8,000 babies are born annually to the 30,000 British women who opt for IVF, with the infants now making up one per cent of our annual births. While IVF's success rate is still reasonably low - even for those under 35 it is only 28 per cent - and while those who do go on to have healthy babies are likely to have undergone numerous cycles of IVF before becoming pregnant, for the three and a half million women in Britain who currently have trouble conceiving its existence can prove to be nothing short of miraculous.

年間に生まれる赤ちゃんの１％にもなってるけど、35歳以下の人でも成功率28%なんだって。

ホルモン剤は副作用があって、体に負担になる。そいで、少ない量で体外受精をさせようという取り組みあるけど、なかなか普及しないんだってさ。

A quick perusal of the finances involved speaks volumes. Last month the fact that London's most high-profile fertility doctor, Mohamed Taranissi, made £8 million in the past year was headline news. His London practice quadrupled its profits in just six years. According to its most recent accounts the company made a pre-tax profit of almost £8 million - based on charging £2,500 for a single round of treatment - and has £20 million in the bank. Mr Taranissi is far from alone. An investigation by the London Evening Standard newspaper in May revealed that quite a few fertility doctors have become millionaires.

要は、たくさん薬を使った方がお金になるし、早く赤ちゃんがほしくて焦る人もいるから。1回の治療費が日本円で50万ってすごい金額。保険の使える病院だと、2年も待たされるらしい。

記事の後ろの方には、うまく行った人、あきらめちゃった人、まだあきらめてない人が出てくるんだけど、なんともいえないかんじ。病気やけがを治療するわけじゃないこーゆー技術って、何か微妙。。。