Canadian women offered chance to delay motherhood
By Mackenna Roberts: The first Canadian clinic to offer long-term egg storage services for healthy young women has opened, aimed at those who wish to delay childbearing until a later age, when their eggs would be less likely to be successfully fertilised. Previously, this option has only been available to...
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Outlawing genetic discrimination
by Susannah Baruch
For more than a decade, policymakers in the US have considered - but not yet passed - legislation that would outlaw the misuse of genetic information by health insurers and employers. The need for such legislation is growing: more than 1000 genetic tests are now clinically available and with many more on...