Illinois rules insurers must cover gamete freezing for cancer patients
Illinois has become the latest US state to insist medical insurers fund fertility preservation treatments for cancer patients...
Illinois has become the latest US state to insist medical insurers fund fertility preservation treatments for cancer patients...
A single night's sleep disturbance causes epigenetic changes in fat and muscle tissue, a new report has found...
Bulging biceps might make men more likely to appeal to the opposite sex, but extra muscle may take its toll on their sperm count...
Finnish researchers have identified two possible mutations in one gene that are both correlated with prostate cancer...
A large study in Australia has found a link between undescended testes at birth and development of testicular cancer and infertility in later life...
Dogs with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) have been treated using genome editing, a study in Science reports...
Nearly 30 Spanish families are unable to leave Ukraine with their surrogate-born infants, as they are unable to register the births with the Spanish Consular Civil Registry of the Spanish Embassy in Kiev...
An evocative and arresting sight hung suspended at the entrance to Egg. Sarah Bebe Holmes lay coiled inside a clear plastic bag of water, eyes closed, delicately moving her fists like a fetus in the womb...
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HFEA launches first National Fertility Patient Survey
by Yuba Bessaoud
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has today launched the first-ever National Fertility Patient Survey. The objective is to give the UK's fertility patients an unprecedented chance to have their say...
The significance of fertility: A landmark ruling on posthumous conception
by Louisa Ghevaert
The recently published case of Y v A Healthcare NHS Trust is a unique and important legal ruling on posthumous conception in the UK. The decision sends an important message that individual fertility and reproductive legacy, and not just property, can warr