Spanish doctor ordered to pay child support after failed abortion
A Spanish doctor has been ordered to pay child support after a failed abortion. A Spanish doctor has been ordered to pay child support after...
Organ trading, donation make headlines
A worldwide illegal trade in kidneys is sharply expanding, according to the World Health Organisation. A worldwide illegal trade in kidneys is sharply expanding, according...
UK doctors could face bans for refusing to give contraceptives to unmarried women
Doctors in the UK could be banned for refusing to give unmarried women contraceptives or carry out sex change operations under new guidelines. Doctors in...
TB patient charged in California for not taking meds
Tuberculosis patient Armando Rodriguez was urged multiple times to continue taking his tuberculosis medication. Tuberculosis patient Armando Rodriguez was urged multiple times to continue taking...
High Court denies benefits to parent of twins born through IVF
Following up on a BioEdge story from last year, a woman whose child was born through posthumous conception was denied survivor benefits, in a US...
Doctors, patients persecuted in Arab turmoil
Doctors in Syria and Bahrain risk arrest and prison for treating patients without fear or favour. Doctors in Syria and Bahrain risk arrest and prison...
Call for Israel to change surrogacy laws
An Israeli Health Ministry committee has made some radical recommendations about fertility and birth policies last week, including allowing gay men to use a surrogate...
Brain scans could replace SATs in 20 years
By 2032, students' brain characteristics could be the deciding factor in whether they get into the college of their dreams, researcher Prof Richard Heier, of...
Would-be grandparents pay for their daughters’ egg freezing
More and more baby-boomers, desperate to have grandchildren, are pushing daughters to freeze their eggs, the New York Times reports. More and more baby-boomers, desperate...
Aggressive IVF puts women and babies at risk, experts say
Aggressive IVF treatments at clinics in the UK are putting women and babies at risk, experts say. Aggressive IVF treatments at clinics in the UK...
After surrogacy, an unexpected pregnancy
Misty Baker turned to a surrogate after ten years of fighting with infertility - and now Baker and her surrogate are both pregnant with twins....
After IVF, an unexpected pregnancy
Despite diagnoses of infertility, some couples who have sought fertility treatments find that they later have a baby naturally, according to a new French study....