Court grants Australian widow permission for posthumous sperm extraction
A 62-year-old widow, known only as Ms H, has been granted permission by the Western Australia Supreme Court to extract sperm from her deceased husband....
Canadian man charged over internet suicides
If anyone doubts the power of the internet to change lives, they should speak with Ontario Police. They recently charged a Toronto man, Kenneth Law,...
Fight over abortion continues in Texas
Texas has been a battleground over abortion for years and the shooting hasn’t stopped since the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade in Dobbs...
NEJM was complicit with American slavery, say historians
The New England Journal of Medicine is the oldest continuously published general medical journal in the world (since 1812) and arguably the most prestigious. However,...
FDA approves at-home insemination kit
In another development in the commercialisation of assisted reproduction, an American company has received FDA approved for an artificial insemination kit. The product, called the...
UK scientists call for embryo bank to increase material for research
Donations of “spare” IVF human embryos to scientific research in the UK have nosedived over the past 15 years, according to The Guardian. The latest...
Incentivising family consent for organ donation
Doctors and economists are always searching for ways to make more organs available for transplant. With a market in organs off the table in most...
War and peace: Israeli physicians treating Palestinian patients
In the midst of the bitter war between Hamas and the Israeli Defense Forces in Gaza, there is a ray of humanitarian light. In a...
Court rules ‘voluntary assisted dying’ is suicide
Such is the stigma surrounding suicide that advocates of “voluntary assisted dying” insist vehemently that it is by no means suicide. For instance, Go Gentle...
Is poverty a cause of the rise of trans identity in the UK?
UK rates of transgender identity have risen at least 5-fold since 2000, with the highest rise observed among 16 to 29-year-olds, although the overall numbers...
Donor anonymity becomes a battleground in the US
Donor-conceived Americans who want the federal government to abolish donor anonymity are getting pushback from the LGBTQI+ lobby. On the one hand, the U.S. Donor...
Should there be a ‘dead donor rule’ for sperm donation?
Sperm donation creates a web of exceedingly complex relationships. The HeyReprotech Newsletter (a great Substack resource for news about assisted reproduction) recently profiled a married...