The UK's Family Planning Association (FPA) has launched a new campaign aiming to make the government introduce a national opportunistic chlamydia screening programme. The FPA also hopes to raise public awareness of chlamydia, which is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the UK. The FPA's latest figures show an...
New research has added to the growing body of evidence that children fathered by older men may face some physical health problems. A British and Swedish research team based at Oxford University, UK, has found that an inherited condition called Apert syndrome is more likely to develop in the children...
A new study, published in The Lancet, shows that it may be possible to determine whether breast cancer patients will respond to cancer treatment by peforming a genetic test on them. Establishing if a woman will or will not respond to a particular drug could save many women from undergoing...
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Announcing BioNews.org.uk
by Juliet Tizzard
We are pleased to announce that Progress Educational Trust has launched a new, dedicated BioNews website. The new site, which was funded through a grant from the UK Department of Health, aims to provide readers with a more permanent source of news and comment in assisted reproduction and genetics and...