Is the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine worth it?
Supporters want to extend its funding In 2004 California voted 59% to 41% for Proposition 71, an amendment to the state constitution which would create...
Do transgender women have a right to gestation?
With womb transplants on the way, we have to ask the question Successful womb transplants have given birth to the notion that transgender women or...
Melbourne hospital given right to administer transfusion without consent
A pregnant Jehovah's Witness teenager had refused the procedureA court in Melbourne, Australia, has approved a hospital’s request to administer a blood transfusion to a...
US insulin price hikes prove fatal for diabetics
Diabetics are rationing insulin injections. Price increases to insulin in the United States have sparked public outcry, with some reports suggesting that diabetics are now...
Man discovers that partner had sperm swapped for lover’s during IVF
Doctors at the Moscow clinic cooperated with the woman's request. A Russian man has successfully sued an IVF clinic in Moscow after his wife secretly...
Buyers of designer babies will be overwhelmed by choice
How does one choose amongst 10,000 options? The dream of “designer babies” is probably further off than most of us think because of all the...
The children of European vaccine sceptics are getting measles
Nearly 40 people have died in 2018 According to the World Health Organisation more than 41,000 people in Europe had been infected with measles in...
IVF kids risk early arterial hypertension
Larger studies are needed to confirm results Children conceived through assisted reproductive technologies may be at an increased risk of developing arterial hypertension early in...
A doctor who stayed
Mohammed al-Bardan explains to the New York Times why he cares for patients in a rebel-held district of SyriaHospital in Idlib destroyed in 2016 / Médecins...