California: Bill to allow women to sell eggs for research is vetoed
The Governor of California, Jerry Brown, has vetoed a bill that would have allowed women to sell their eggs for medical research...
Cait McDonagh
Cait McDonagh is a former Volunteer Writer at BioNews and a Volunteer at the charity that publishes it, the Progress Educational Trust (PET). She is also a Development Editor at Brierley Price Prior. Previously, she studied Law at the University of Kent, where she also volunteered for the Kent Law Clinic. Her dissertation for her Medical Law and Ethics LLM focused on public health services, childcare and relationships with the state. She has a particular interest in the regulation of new reproductive therapies, and the storage and use of genetic materials.
BioNews Articles by Cait McDonagh
HFEA will remain independent, says UK Government
The Department of Health has announced that the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority will remain the independent regulator of assisted reproduction and embryology research in the UK...
Australian IVF doctor not liable for failing to warn about the risk of a hereditary condition
The parents of a child born with a rare blood clotting disorder have lost their legal battle against an IVF doctor for wrongful birth after he failed to warn them of the risks of passing on the hereditary condition...
Powdered eggs are 'future of fertility preservation'
An experimental preservation method could let women store eggs at home as a powder and then ‘just add water’ (and sperm) when needed...
Being: The Donor-Conceived Perspective
Another full house for the final event of Progress Educational Trust's 'When it Takes More Than Two' series. This time attendees were invited to consider gamete donation from the perspective of the donor conceived...
Receiving: The Recipient Parent Perspective
The second debate in the Progress Educational Trust's project 'When It Takes More Than Two' took place at University College London last week. The debate, 'Receiving: The Recipient Parent Perspective', focused on the views of those who have received donor gametes to begin their families....
Divorcee must support donor-conceived children born during marriage
A man has been ordered to pay child support to his ex-wife for two children conceived through a sperm donor and born during the marriage....
NICE Try - The Impact of Policy / Calm Down Dear - The Impact of Stress
The Progress Educational Trust's annual conference 'Fertility Treatment: A Life-Changing Event?' was an opportunity for experts in the fertility sector to debunk myths surrounding the impact of life-style factors on fertility and fertility practice...
Book Review: Like a Virgin
Reading the back cover blurb, I was looking forward to an eye-opening adventure, discovering the ways in which societies have long been fascinated with creating a child by unconventional means. The book also promised to show how this might be possible in the future and I wasn’t disappointed...
Glasgow centre buyout births UK's largest IVF provider
The Academic Research Partnership (ARP) has bought a majority stake in the Glasgow Centre for Reproductive Medicine (GCRM), reportedly creating the UK's largest provider of NHS and private IVF services...