Homerton Fertility Centre has licence suspended by HFEA
Homerton Fertility Centre in London has had its licence suspended by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority because of 'significant concerns about the clinic'...
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Hannah Flynn is Science Editor at BioNews and at the charity that publishes it, the Progress Educational Trust (PET). She also works for Medical News Today as a fact checker, and for the NHS campaign Keep Our NHS Public. Together with her fellow BioNews editors Dr Joanne Delange and Jen Willows, she runs the BioNews writing scheme, which provides practical science writing training and experience for PhD students.
Hannah has been a health journalist for a decade and has worked as a reporter for Chemist+Druggist and the Nursing Standard, covering policy and clinical news. Bylines include various trade publications as well as Vice, Ars Technica, TES and the Guardian. She has also worked with charities and non-profit organisations including the Royal National Institute of Blind People, the Children's Society, the Institute of Physics and the National Council for Voluntary Organisations. She originally studied Biology at the University of Manchester, and went on to study journalism at Cardiff University.
by Hannah Flynn
Homerton Fertility Centre in London has had its licence suspended by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority because of 'significant concerns about the clinic'...
by Hannah Flynn
Guy's and St Thomas' Assisted Conception Unit, London, is the subject of an investigation by the HFEA into delays in informing women that their frozen eggs and embryos could be affected by a manufacturing error...
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The pope has called for the 'international community to prohibit' surrogacy, and said it violates the dignity of the woman and child and leads to the exploitation of poor women...
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Researchers called for the law to be interpreted in a way that would make it easier for IVF patients to donate their unused embryos for general research, at the 2023 PET Annual Conference...
by Hannah Flynn
Exposure of pregnant women to air pollution could affect the development of the sex organs of their sons in ways that have been linked to fertility later in life...
by Hannah Flynn
Women will be able to undergo IVF using their partner's eggs, without their partner undergoing additional screening usually required for gamete donors...
by Hannah Flynn
How companies are using data collected in fertility and period apps in the UK will be reviewed by the Information Commissioner's Office, to identify whether any potentially harmful practices are occurring...
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DNA obtained from the remains of 27 African Americans found in a cemetery near an historical iron forge in Maryland, has been linked to nearly 42,000 living descendants by 23andMe...
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A move by the Israeli Health Ministry to stop a further Assuta clinic in Tel Aviv from accepting any new fertility patients, has come under criticism by doctors...
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