NHS not supporting cord blood stem cell banking for personal use
Some UK National Health Service (NHS) hospitals are banning the collection of umbilical cord blood at birth unless it goes into a public blood bank rather than being stored for future use by the individual. King's College hospital in London and Watford General hospital in Hertfordshire have...
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Parenthood and the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008
by Dr Julie McCandless and 1 others
The new 'status provisions', regulating who shall be treated as the parent of a child conceived via donor insemination and/or IVF, come into effect this week. In this commentary we outline how the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act (2008) has reworked these provisions and raise a number of issues...