Young breast cancer patients forgo tamoxifen over fertility concerns
Researchers in the USA have found that fertility concerns may be contributing to low tamoxifen use and discontinuation of the drug among reproductive-age breast cancer patients...
Kirsty Oswald
Kirsty Oswald was a Volunteer Writer at BioNews. She was previously Genetics Editor at BioNews and at the charity that publishes it, the Progress Educational Trust (PET). She originally studied Human Sciences at University College London, and went on to work as a healthcare copywriter and as a medical journalist at medwireNews. She has a particular interested in the social and cultural aspects of science, and she tweets as @kirstyoswald
BioNews Articles by Kirsty Oswald
Precision medicine approach effective in lung cancer
Researchers have shown that a skin cancer drug can be used to treat advanced lung cancer in patients whose tumours harbour a particular mutation...
Ageing ovaries - not eggs - may lead to IVF failure
Changes to the activity of cells in the ovary may contribute to poorer IVF success rates among women in their 40s...
There are five types of prostate cancer, say scientists
Researchers have found that prostate cancer can be divided into five subgroups with distinct genetic fingerprints...
France to recognise surrogate children
One of France's highest courts ruled on Friday that children born to surrogates abroad have the right to have their births and citizenship recognised by the state...
Switzerland votes for PGD
In a national referendum, a majority of Swiss voters have supported allowing preimplantation genetic diagnosis to screen for genetic diseases...
Yorkshire embryologist awarded MBE
Rachel Cutting, principal embryologist at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, has been awarded an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List...
Non-invasive Down's syndrome test 'ready for NHS'
Researchers say that a non-invasive prenatal test for Down's syndrome is ready to be introduced into the NHS...
Earthquake throws spotlight on Israeli use of Nepalese surrogacy
Israel has evacuated a number of babies born to Israeli parents and surrogate mothers in Nepal, in the wake of the earthquake which killed at least 7500 people...
French court grants lesbian adoption after appeal
A French appeals court has granted a woman the right to adopt a child her wife conceived overseas via artificial insemination...