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Ayesha Ahmad
Ayesha Ahmad is a Volunteer Writer at BioNews, and is studying for a PhD at Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry at the Universities of Exeter and Plymouth, where her research focuses on how the human embryo is conceptualised in contemporary Western scientific medicine. She is also a Visiting Research Fellow at Durham University, and she writes for the British Medical Journal's Medical Humanities blog and for the Newsletter of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.
BioNews Comment articles written by Ayesha Ahmad:
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A recent court case in Israel has generated much controversy after a judge allowed the family of deceased 17-year-old Chen Aida Ayish to extract and freeze her eggs posthumously. At the time, the family also requested permission to fertilise the eggs but it is now understood to have retracted its request – reportedly in the face of public pressure...[Read More] |
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Northern Ireland Assembly motion calls for end to IVF 'discrimination' |
| 26 March 2012 - by |
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Couples in Northern Ireland claim they are being discriminated against as they are only offered one cycle of IVF treatment on the NHS. This is in comparison to the two or three available in the rest of the UK...[Read More] |
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| 27 February 2012 - by |
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The exchange rate between the euro and Denmark's krone is causing a crisis for the sperm banking business in Ireland, reports the Irish Independent....[Read More] |
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Myriad Genetics acquires patent on another breast cancer-linked gene |
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Myriad Genetics, a leading US molecular diagnostic company, has been granted exclusive rights to an analysis of the RAD51C gene. Mutations of the gene have been associated with an increased risk for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer and the company now hopes to develop a commercial test for RAD51C....[Read More] |
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| 30 August 2011 - by |
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A US businesswoman from Arizona has been convicted of selling unapproved stem cells over a period of several months....[Read More] |
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Landmark case allows Israeli family to freeze their dead daughter's eggs |
| 15 August 2011 - by |
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An Israeli court has granted permission for a family to extract and freeze eggs from their deceased daughter's ovaries...[Read More] |
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No action to be taken on fertility clinic that implanted wrong embryo |
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A fertility clinic in Hong Kong has admitted to implanting two embryos into the wrong woman earlier this month. The embryos, belonging to another patient at the clinic, were removed and discarded by the clinic upon discovery of the mistake. The women affected are said to have received counseling and compensation from the clinic....[Read More] |
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| 16 May 2011 - by |
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A fertility clinic in Amsterdam has announced it is to offer egg freezing techniques on social grounds despite professional bodies recommending that the procedure be investigated further....[Read More] |
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| 18 April 2011 - by |
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A couple must pay over £500 monthly maintenance to a surrogate mother who decided to keep the baby...[Read More] |
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| 11 April 2011 - by |
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The maximum rate for multiple births following IVF treatment in fertility centres has been set by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) at 15 percent....[Read More] |
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Survey highlights the UK's continuing IVF 'postcode lottery' |
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A recent survey has found that two thirds of women would consider moving to another area of the UK to access IVF on the NHS....[Read More] |
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