Hope for Scots couples in new city baby clinic
A National centre to help couples who fear passing on dangerous genetic conditions to their children is to open in Glasgow.
The Scottish Executive will fund the new pre-implantation genetic diagnosis service to help at least 15 families a year. But today doctors insisted they would not be helping couples to create ‘designer babies’ unlike controversial units in England.
Glasgow Royal Infirmary will work with experts in genetic conditions from the Duncan Guthrie Unit at Yorkhill Sick Kids, offering fresh hope to families throughout Scotland. Some of the patients from all over Scotland treated at the NHS centre, which opens next month, will have experienced multiple miscarriages as a result of pregnancies that could not survive to term.
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