High Court upholds patients' rights in embryo and gamete storage case
The court's decision 'offers clarity on matters that are legally and ethically complex as well as emotionally challenging', writes Dr Nishat Hyder-Rahman...
Consultant, LDMH Partners
Dr Nishat Hyder-Rahman is a consultant at LDMH Partners and postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Law and Criminology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.
The court's decision 'offers clarity on matters that are legally and ethically complex as well as emotionally challenging', writes Dr Nishat Hyder-Rahman...
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has revealed that 504 sperm donors in the UK have between them 'fathered' more than 6,200 children....
Beth Warren's legal battle to keep her late husband's frozen sperm has finally ended following the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority's announcement that it will not appeal the High Court ruling in Mrs Warren's favour...
A Kansas court has ruled that a man who donated sperm to a lesbian couple in response to a Craigslist advertisement is the legal father of the resulting child. The decision means the man can be required to pay child support....
The South Australian Supreme Court has granted a woman permission to use her deceased husband's sperm for IVF treatment....
An expert panel of scientists has issued a report advising the Italian Government against continuing to support a controversial stem cell therapy, deeming it 'unscientific'....
Davide Vannoni, head of the Stamina Foundation in Turin, Italy, and pioneer of a controversial stem cell therapy, has once again hit the headlines amid allegations of poor research methodology...
The Italian Senate has approved an 18-month, €3 million clinical trial of a controversial stem cell-based therapy. The vote, on 22 May 2013, will also allow a hospital to continue to treat twelve patients already undergoing the contested treatment...
The Indian Home Ministry has issued strict visa guidelines making it more difficult for commissioning parents to obtain visas for entry to India for surrogacy arrangements...
The parents of a child with serious disabilities caused by an inherited rare genetic condition who died shortly after birth are suing St George's Hospital, London for failing to test for and identify the condition before birth....
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