NHS approves earlier use of 'game-changing' ovarian cancer drug
Women in England with advanced ovarian cancer will now have access to a drug that could help halt the progression of their disease much earlier in their course of treatment...
News
One in six women conceive naturally after unsuccessful IVF
The chances of having a treatment-independent live birth following IVF or ICSI are favourable, say researchers at the University of Aberdeen...
Call for genome sequencing pilot in newborn screening
A new report has called for genome sequencing to be trialled alongside the nine tests that currently comprise newborn screening in the UK...
Wellcome fund initiative to unravel how human embryos develop
Wellcome will provide £10 million to fund a 'world-first' research project to better understand human embryonic development...
NHS 'genomic volunteers' won't be expected to pay for genome sequencing
Two new government publications reveal that plans to charge healthy volunteers for NHS genome sequencing have been scrapped...
Reviews
Book Review: The Farm
Wealth buys everything. Joanne Ramos' novel The Farm paints a vision of commercial surrogacy unfettered and taken to its extreme: high-end surrogacy for the rich. In her story, not only can the rich and successful outsource childcare to nannies and au pai
Comment
Sex selection by gay men using gestational surrogacy: a troubling trend in queer family-making?
by Dr Linda Layne
The gestational surrogacy memoirs of five European and American gay dads and one heterosexual single-father-by-choice suggest that sex selection for sons may be occurring...