Australian woman wins right to IVF without estranged husband's consent
A woman in Melbourne, Australia, has won the right to undergo IVF treatment using donor sperm, without the consent of her estranged husband...
Sarah Pritchard is a Volunteer Writer at BioNews. She began writing for PET while studying for a Masters in Medical Law and Ethics at Kings College London where her thesis looked at the 'right' to have children in the context of limited NHS resources. Sarah’s interest in reproductive technologies and the ethical implications of fertility treatment began while studying English and Philosophy at the University of York, specifically during the Bioethics module. Sarah has been a communications advisor for the Pharmacy Guild of New Zealand and a news writer for MedWire News. Sarah also led a digital communications team at her local NHS Trust for six years. At the end of 2023, Sarah moved back to New Zealand, where she now works again as a news writer for MedWire, doula and infant massage instructor.
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...
A retired US fertility doctor accused of using his own sperm to inseminate patients at his clinic will plead guilty to misleading investigators...
A married gay male couple in Utah is challenging the state's law that says couples need to prove that a woman is unable to have children before turning to surrogacy...
Clinical Commissioning Groups in the Bristol region are the first to propose restricting NHS-funded IVF treatment to women aged 30 to 35 years...
Aggressive human prostate and liver tumours have been shrunk in mice by targeting a ‘fused’ gene mutation using CRISPR/Cas9...
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