Welfare of the Fertility Patient: Spotting Signs and Treatment after Trauma
This PET event looked at the ways that trauma can affect a patient's experience of treatment, and explored the ways that professionals who work with them can handle this...
by Ochuko Oyeye
This PET event looked at the ways that trauma can affect a patient's experience of treatment, and explored the ways that professionals who work with them can handle this...
by Roee Amir and 1 others
The latest war in Israel has seen debate sparked over whose desires and interests take precedent when determining whether to proceed with posthumous sperm retrieval…
Despite the pain and confusion it has caused many IVF patients in Alabama, the Alabama Supreme Court's ruling that embryos had personhood, has forced many politicians and legislators in the USA to confront the impact of making reproductive care a political football…
by Professor Sonia Suter and 1 others
The conflation of abortion law with access to IVF has been inevitable since Roe was overturned…
by Igor Brusil
The decision by the Alabama Supreme Court to define embryos as children has sent shockwaves around the USA and beyond, but to understand its potential impact, it needs to be recognised the decision was a democratic one…
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics recently published a report identifying gaps in ethical guidance available to those working in UK-based genomic research and healthcare. In this article, Danielle Hamm, director of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics discusses how and why these need to be addressed in a coordinated way...
Bringing you PET events as a podcast. In the 15th episode of its podcast, PET looks at recent changes to the way the UK's fertility regulator assesses 'add-ons' to IVF treatment, with Dr Tim Child, Professor Joyce Harper, Dr Ippokratis Sarris, Tracey Sainsbury and Dr Tasha Alden...
by Professor Bart Fauser and 1 others
Decades of policy aimed at curbing population growth has left many countries at the precipice of an unprecedented population decline. Policy makers and employers must work to reverse this trend to avoid catastrophe, but also to bring joy, write Professor Fauser and Dr Mocanu from the International Federation of Fertility Societies...
by BioNews
This film documents a PET event about whether, and in what circumstances, single people should be able to access publicly funded fertility treatment...
by Professor David Whittingham
Professor David Whittingham recalls the life and work of his friend, Professor Ryuzo Yanagimachi, who died at the age of 95 last year. Professor Yanagimachi made many key contributions to the study of mammalian fertilisation...
BioNews, published by the Progress Educational Trust (PET), provides news and comment on genetics, assisted conception, embryo/stem cell research and related areas.