Sir Robert Geoffrey Edwards CBE. 27 September 1925 — 10 April 2013

Sir Robert Edwards (1925–2013): Creator of the Greatest Happiness

‘‘Give me children; else I am as dead’’. The desperate cry of Rachel to her husband Jacob, whose life is meaningless whilst she remains sterile, rings down the ages [1], a cry still heard in both developed countries and less affluent ones. Until recently, this pain has been largely ignored or belittled, as it was by Jacob. Sir Robert Edwards, who died last week, understood it. The plight of inf...

MHR celebration issue in tribute to Professor Sir Robert Edwards.

Bob Edwards died earlier this year and will be sadly missed by all those who knew him. Recognition of his outstanding contributions came rather late in his career but finally, in 2010, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Bobs achievements have been widely documented on a number of different occasions. Amongst these he set upMolecular Human Reproduction (MHR) and as such w...

Persian-translation Special Issue vol. 10, no. 2, April 2013

Cover Special Issue vol. 10, no. 2, April 2013

Erratum, Vol. 10, April 11, 2013 Release

A correction was made to a sentence in the Methods section of the article “Supermarket and Grocery Store–Based Interventions to Promote Healthful Food Choices and Eating Practices: A Systematic Review.” The sentence describes the calculation of a subscore: “We used this average as 1 of 2 subscores” was changed to “We used the sum of these averages as 1 of 2 subscores.” The correction was made t...