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Britain's leading fertility expert condemned the IVF industry, saying it had been corrupted by money and exploited women.
Robert Winston also accused the fertility watchdog, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) of failing to protect women and giving poor information to couples, according to the Guardian.
Speaking at the Guardian Hay festival, Lord Winston said: "One of the major problems facing us in healthcare is that IVF has become a massive commercial industry. It's very easy to exploit people by the fact that they're desperate and you've got the technology which they want, which may not work."
Lord Winston, professor of fertility studies at Imperial College London, criticised doctors in the capital, saying: "Amazing sums of money are being made through IVF. It is really rather depressing to consider that some IVF treatments in London are charged at 10 times the fee that is charged in Melbourne, where there is excellent medicine, where IVF is just as successful, where they have comparable salaries.
"So one has to ask oneself what has happened. What has happened, of course, is that...