Lesbian couple fight NHS over fertility treatment
A lesbian couple have succeeded in obtaining IVF on the NHS after initially being refused on the ground of being the same-sex, reported The Times last week. The couple who wish to remain anonymous threatened an NHS Trust with legal action after they were denied fertility treatment for one of the women who became infertile after developing polycystic ovaries. The couple sought advice from David Herbert, partner at law firm Lester Aldridge, and put legal pressure on the Trust to overturn it’s d...
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The Press, Public Debate and the Public Understanding of Ethics
by Ben Jones
Many of the developments in the biosciences reported on in BioNews involve novel moral issues or further complicate existing ethical debates. While concerns about the efficacy or safety of a new therapy inevitably lead to calls for further action within the scientific community - more research, bigger studies, better analysis - ethical worries instead result in calls for non-specialist external validation, consultation exercises, public debate and engagement. While the public are put i
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We are pleased to announce that following years of dealing with out-of-date technology and increasing competition, the BioNews website and the free BioNews by email service have been overhauled...