‘I felt like a knife had been put into my heart’: Down syndrome woman
The UK Court of Appeal has dismissed a legal challenge brought by a woman with Down syndrome against a provision of the Abortion Act which...
Preparing for the next generation of doctors in the UK
What is the next generation of UK doctors learning about some of the most contested issues of the day? On the LGBTQI+ front, medical students...
English nurse charged with serial killing of newborns
A 32-year-old nurse is on trial for murdering five new-born babies and attempting to murder 10 others at a hospital in the west of England....
UK could revise standards for infant brain death after Baby A experience
Never simple, brain death in UK babies is being reviewed after a 3-month-old baby was declared “brain dead” due to “irreversible cessation of brain stem...
Back from the dead?
Unsettling accounts of dead people who aren’t dead continue to make headlines. On August 17, in the Mexican town of Salinas, a 3-year-old girl named...
Fertility watchdog wants to overhaul UK laws on embryos
The UK’s fertility regulator is seeking to liberalise techniques for manipulating human embryos in assisted reproduction and research. The Guardian describes its plans as “the...
UK babies may have their whole genome sequenced at birth
In the UK, as in many other countries, hospitals routinely conduct a heelprick blood test on newborns shortly after they are born. The blood sample...
Scathing report on English hospital’s maternity care
A damning report on a regional UK hospital system has found that around 131 stillbirths, 70 neonatal deaths and nine maternal deaths might have been...
Longevity does not always work in your favour in the UK
“Dying patients living longer than expected lose NHS funds” was the BBC headline. The NHS is the UK’s government health service, which is publicly funded...
House of Lords votes down another assisted dying proposal
This week the House of Lords in the UK voted down an unusual amendment to a Health and Care Bill and killed the latest initiative...
Is the UK slowly approaching legalization of commercial surrogacy?
A debate over the legalization of commercial surrogacy is simmering away on the back burner in the United Kingdom. Last year the Law Commission of...
Meet the ‘world’s most prolific sperm donor’
An Englishman who describes himself as the "world's most prolific sperm donor", says he has fathered 129 children, and another nine on the way. His...