April 11, 2019
(Medical Xpress) – A team of Greek and Spanish doctors announced Thursday the birth of a baby using DNA from three people after a controversial fertility treatment that has provoked intense ethical debate. The team used an egg from the … Read More
April 8, 2019
(TIME) – The President of Rwanda pardoned hundreds of people convicted of having or assisting in an abortion this week. President Paul Kagame pardoned 367 people “convicted for the offenses of abortion, complicity in abortion and infanticide,” the Prime Minister’s … Read More
April 5, 2019
(The Hill) – A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a Kentucky law requiring doctors to show and describe a fetal ultrasound to patients before performing an abortion. In a 2-1 decision, the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the … Read More
April 5, 2019
(STAT News) – A growing number of babies born in the U.S. are breastfed, and health officials are pushing to make it easier for even more new mothers to nurse their babies. But experts say there still isn’t enough research … Read More
April 4, 2019
(Vox) – The list of those who have had few or no legal rights throughout history is staggering: women, children, orphans, widows, Jews, gays and lesbians, slaves, former slaves, descendants of slaves, those with leprosy, undocumented immigrants — to name … Read More
April 2, 2019
(Bloomberg) – What they didn’t expect is that despite all the work they put into trying to follow the rules, they would still be vulnerable to criticism—in particular to a public-relations crisis that erupted last year after a number of … Read More
April 1, 2019
(GMA) – Cecile Eledge is a 61-year-old mother of three who has been health conscious her entire life, from being “very conscientious” about her diet to staying active. Last Monday, March 25, Eledge “reaped the rewards” of that healthy lifestyle … Read More
April 1, 2019
(Reuters) – Certain rare childhood cancers may be more common in children conceived via in vitro fertilization (IVF), a U.S. study suggests, but parents needn’t lose sleep over this finding, according to the researchers. “For the few cancers that seemed … Read More
April 1, 2019
(Daily Mail) – Australian couples are spending $20,000 to choose the eye colour and sex of their ‘designer babies’ at an overseas clinic. But critics have slammed the practice, claiming it is reminiscent of ‘what the Nazis wanted to do’. … Read More
April 1, 2019
(Medscape) – Women due to undergo hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) can be reassured that, even if they have to rely on artificial reproductive techniques (ART) to achieve a later pregnancy, the likelihood of the normal delivery or a normal … Read More
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