Hong Kong IVF clinic ordered to suspend most services after embryo sample errors

Hong Kong’s regulator for in vitro fertilisation (IVF) has ordered a fertility clinic to partially halt operations after it mishandled embryo biopsy samples from two patients and failed to report the incident to health authorities. The Council on Human Reproductive Technology said on Tuesday that it had suspended most operations at HEAL Fertility in Central after discovering that embryo biopsy samples the clinic sent for pre-implantation genetic testing belonged to the wrong parents. Council...

By Lo Hoi-ying,Emily Hung