Sarah Pritchard is a Volunteer Writer at BioNews and a communications officer for Bristol Mental Health where her role sees her working with over 10 partnership organisations across the mental health sector. Previously, she was a communications advisor for the Pharmacy Guild of New Zealand and a medical news writer for MedWire, an independent online medical news service. Previously, she studied English and Philosophy at the University of York, where she became interested in the ethics of complex and controversial life-and-death issues. She subsequently obtained an MA in Medical Ethics and Law from Kings College London, where her research focused on the legal and ethical implications of new and developing reproductive technologies and genetic therapy.
A US couple is suing an IVF clinic for destroying seven embryos by not storing them correctly...
Multiple sclerosis is unlikely to be caused by genetic factors alone, report researchers who studied a 'globally unique' cohort of identical twins...
The Indian Parliament has approved two bills regulating fertility treatment and surrogacy practices in the country...
Improvements in the success rates of IVF treatment have been cited as part of the reason fewer people are choosing to adopt children in the UK, despite the number of children currently in care reaching a record high...
A woman in Melbourne, Australia, has won the right to undergo IVF treatment using donor sperm, without the consent of her estranged husband...
Nearly 30 Spanish families are unable to leave Ukraine with their surrogate-born infants, as they are unable to register the births with the Spanish Consular Civil Registry of the Spanish Embassy in Kiev...
Australia may become the second nation to legalise mitochondrial donation, after its Senate endorsed the so-called 'three-person IVF' technique in a recent report...
The charity Womb Transplant UK has announced its intention to carry out the first womb transplant in the UK by the end of 2018, with living as well as deceased donors...
A new Ten Minute Rule Bill was introduced on 18 April which, if passed, will end the IVF 'postcode lottery' in the UK...
Researchers have tested cancer drugs on lab-grown 'mini-tumours' and say the results mean that the most appropriate treatment for a patient with cancer could be given faster in future...
