Smartening up the newsletter
Hi there, We are making plans for refurbishing the website and I’d like to consult you about them. Apart from smartening up the appearance of...
Non-invasive Down syndrome test available next week
A new non-invasive test for Down syndrome will be offered in 20 cities from Monday. According to an article in the journal Genetics in Medicine,...
The world of the donorsexual
What kind of man becomes a sperm donor? A Swedish study in BJOG, an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology, says that donors are actually...
Brazilian transplant doctors convicted after 25 years
A jury in Sao Paulo has convicted three Brazilian doctors of killing four patients for their kidneys. Rui Sacramento, Pedro Torrecillas and Mariano Fiore Junior...
UK increases compensation for sperm and egg donors
Was the outcome of the UK’s fertility watchdog’s public consultation over compensation for sperm and egg donors ever in doubt? This week the Human Fertilisation...
Sunset for a stem cell star
Despite continuing huffing and puffing over the merits of human embryonic stem cells, the central issue seems to be shifting from the patients’ right to...
Are older mums selfish?
An Australian obstetrician was heaped with scorn and ridicule earlier this month when he declared that women who deferred having children until their mid-30s were...
Are we morally obliged to participate in research?
Bioethics debates are often robust, but it’s not every day that they make a reader sick. This was the reaction of Professor Bill Gleason, of...
European Court of Justice bans embryo patents
A landmark decision by the European Court of Justice this week marks a step forward in legal recognition of the dignity of the human embryo....