Ochuko Oyeye is a Volunteer Writer for BioNews. She obtained a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Manchester, with a year's industrial experience, during which she worked as a research executive at a global healthcare consulting agency. Her main areas of interest include infectious diseases, Women's health and pharmacology.
This PET event looked at the ways that trauma can affect a patient's experience of treatment, and explored the ways that professionals who work with them can handle this...
A two-year pilot trialling genomic technology that enables rapid detection of infectious diseases has received funding from NHS England and the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology...
Gamete compensation in the UK has remained at the same level since 2011. Amid a cost-of-living crisis, and with demand for gametes exceeding supply, speakers at a PET event explored whether it is time to reconsider compensation for gamete donors...
A 40-year-old woman has donated her uterus to her younger sister in the UK's first successful transplant of its kind...
GPs should use their 'soft influence' to lobby commissioners for better fertility treatment, the president of the Royal College of GPs said at an event hosted by PET...
Thirty donor-conceived people will be able to request identifying information about their donor from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority by the end of 2023...
A test which detects if a newborn baby has a genetic variant that could make them susceptible to hearing loss if given the antibiotic gentamicin, has been given conditional approval by NICE...
The UK Government has announced a deal to accelerate research into vaccines for cancer...
An Irish couple whose triplets were born prematurely in Kenya, has been unable to bring them home due to unpaid medical bills...
A novel immunotherapy drug blocks tumour growth and marks cancer cells for destruction by the immune system, new research suggests...
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