German court case may put an end to a sperm donor's anonymity
A regional appeals court in Hamm, Germany has ruled that a 22-year-old woman conceived via an anonymous sperm donor has a legal right to find out the identity of her biological father...
Jessica Ware was previously a Volunteer Writer at BioNews and is a news reporter by trade, writing for publications including the Independent and the foreign desk of The Times. As a languages buff, she tends to write about stories from Europe and human interest stories. She has worked in Berlin for an English language news service and for the BBC, and she has an MA in Newspaper Journalism from City University London.
by Jess Ware
A regional appeals court in Hamm, Germany has ruled that a 22-year-old woman conceived via an anonymous sperm donor has a legal right to find out the identity of her biological father...
by Jess Ware
A Western Australian judge has granted a newly widowed woman the right to retrieve sperm from her dead husband, although a further court order will be required before it can be used for any purpose....
by Jess Ware
A private fertility clinic in Belfast that was ordered to stop accepting patients after concerns over non-compliance with regulations has had its restrictions lifted after nearly two months...
by Jess Ware
NHS Fife will no longer provide fertility treatment to couples if either of them smokes, or if the woman is overweight. In the same week, the Scottish Government has pledged to invest £12 million over the next three years to reduce waiting times for infertility treatment across Scotland...
by Jess Ware
A Northern Irish fertility clinic has protested against a regulatory notice which could mean it may have to stop accepting new patients....
by Jess Ware
Couples undergoing fertility treatment in Gloucestershire will soon have access to three NHS-funded cycles of IVF treatment instead of just one. Eligibility criteria will also be widened, it was announced this month...
by Jess Ware
The Sher Institute, a network of eight fertility clinics in the USA, has announced the three couples to win an IVF giveaway contest...
by Jess Ware
Around half of the 2,000 babies born to surrogate mothers in India last year may have gone to British parents, an investigation by the Sunday Telegraph has revealed....
by Jess Ware
For mice at least, probiotic yoghurt could be the secret behind staying slim and 'sexy'. Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US came to this conclusion after a study to evaluate the effect of yoghurt on age-related weight gain...
by Jess Ware
Two German gynaecologists will have to pay child support for twins after they artificially inseminated the mother without obtaining the father's permission to use his sperm, which he had asked to be destroyed two years earlier...
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