A handbook aimed at providing GPs with up to date information on genetics which they can use in their everyday practice, was released yesterday to delegates at the 50th annual conference of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners in Sydney. 'Genetics in Family Medicine: The Australian...
A new public-private partnership between the UK Government and three big pharmaceutical companies to fund an initiative to use stem cells to test new drugs was announced last week. Stem Cells for Safer Medicine (SC4SM), a not-for-profit consortium, will initially invest over £1 million in projects testing...
It would appear that the quest for motherhood is for some, a desire that fails to subside with age. Empowered by new technologies such as IVF treatments, women are increasingly seeking the assistance of fertility clinics to fulfil their aim of bearing a child when their biological...
Speaking at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington last week, Hilary Clinton, who is running for Democrat presidential candidate, laid down her vision of a Clinton presidency in which scientific progress is placed firmly back on the agenda. In her speech, timed to coincide with the...
Californian researchers have reported that women over 35 can avoid multiple births by using an in vitro fertilisation (IVF) method that transfers only a single embryo. A team led by Dr Amin Milki from Stanford University, reporting in the journal Fertility and Sterility, announced that half of...
The UK government has paved the way ahead for the Human Tissue and Embryos (HTE) Bill in its response to the Bill Scrutiny Committee, which was released today. The Government has taken on many of the Committee's recommendations, including the rejection of plans to merge the current...
A 72-year-old grandfather will be allowed to act as a sperm donor for his infertile son and daughter-in-law, effectively making any resulting child his father's biological half brother. Although theoretically not illegal, according to the Human Fertility and Embryology Authority, is thought that this is the...
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The Australian 'Wrongful Birth Claim': A Healthy Baby is a Blessing
by Dr Sammy Lee
Last week, BioNews reported on an ongoing Australian case in which an IVF mother is suing her consultant specialist for negligence concerning the birth of her healthy twins, on the basis of her express wish to have had only a singleton pregnancy and one child. The case has taken on...