DECISIVE new guidelines have been issued to doctors and nurses on the care of patients receiving fertility treatment following an inquiry into the death of a young woman after a reaction to IVF treatment.

THE family of Jacqueline Rushton yesterday revealed they had met a “veil of silence” in the medical profession trying to find answers to her death.

AN INDEPENDENT inquiry into the death of a young woman following IVF treatment has concluded the main cause of death could have been prevented.

JUST months after Jacqueline Rushton died following in vitro fertilisation complications, Jennifer Callister began similar treatment at Dublin’s HARI Clinic.

DUBLIN’S Rotunda Hospital yesterday assured patients steps had been taken since Jacqueline Rushton’s death to ensure a similar tragedy from IVF treatment would not happen again.

A lack of senior control over the hospital care of a young nurse undergoing IVF treatment before she died was highlighted in an official report published today.

The family of the late Jacqui Rushton say consultants at the Rotunda hospital are to blame for her death.

SOME of the last pictures of Jacqueline Rushton show her playing with her niece.

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THE mother of a woman who died three years ago while undergoing fertility treatment said the inquiry into her death should prevent other women from dying the same way.

A MOTHER whose daughter died as a result of fertility treatment complications protested with family and friends outside the venue of the inaugural meeting of the Irish Fertility Society yesterday.

THE death of a woman from fertility treatment complications will not deter couples desperate to have a biological child from seeking in-vitro fertilisation (IVF), an infertility support group said yesterday.