Canadian government tables reform to assisted reproduction laws
The Canadian government has proposed updates to existing assisted reproduction law, including payment of expenses to gamete donors and surrogates...
Nina Chohan is a former Volunteer Writer at BioNews, having originally joined the publication under the auspices of its writing scheme. She is currently in Canada pursuing a legal career after studying for an LLM in Medical Law at Queen Mary University of London. She has also completed a MSc in International Health Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). While at LSE, she did an internship with NICE and completed her thesis titled 'Lessons learnt by NICE: A comparative study between Montreal, Canada and London, England to identify and produce recommendations for the diagnosis, treatment and control of Tuberculosis in London. Previously, she studied and practised nursing in Canada, and went on to study at the University of Birmingham.
by Nina Chohan
The Canadian government has proposed updates to existing assisted reproduction law, including payment of expenses to gamete donors and surrogates...
by Nina Chohan
Men who regularly take the maximum recommended dose of ibuprofen may be at an increased risk of fertility issues...
by Nina Chohan
The New York fertility clinic Reproductive Medicine Associates is facing two lawsuits from couples whose children, conceived using donor eggs from the centre, have Fragile X syndrome...
by Nina Chohan
A Canadian woman has been awarded $100,000 in damages to pay for a surrogate in a precedent-setting legal case...
by Nina Chohan
A study has found that women with higher levels of the 'stress hormone' cortisol in their hair are less likely to conceive through IVF than women with lower levels of the hormone...
by Nina Chohan
A 62-year-old Tasmanian woman has become Australia's oldest mother to conceive using IVF...
by Nina Chohan
Ethical approval has been given for clinical trials involving ten womb transplants in the UK to go ahead....
by Nina Chohan
A Canadian couple has filed a lawsuit against US-based sperm bank, Xytex, after they discovered that the sperm used to conceive their child was provided by a 'college drop out' with a criminal record and a history of schizophrenia...
by Nina Chohan
Scientists have shown for the first time that whole-genome sequencing (WGS) in IVF embryos can detect 'de novo' mutations...
by Nina Chohan
Cholesterol levels may affect how long it takes to conceive, reports a study that followed couples for one year...
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