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Hundreds of teenagers are given puberty blockers
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust clinic in London offers a gender identity development service. Five doctors have just resigned "due to concerns over the treatment of children presenting as transgender". Launched in 2010, this experimental programme...
Turkey, a new destination for reproductive tourism
Turkey has become a favourite destination for Western couples looking for low-cost in-vitro fertilization treatment. It attracts both American women, who cannot afford an IVF cycle in their own country [1], and European women, who do not have access to MAR in their...
Morocco passes law on MAR
Following six years of negotiations on religious and moral issues, a law governing medically assisted reproduction came into effect in Morocco on 04 April. MAR has already been practised in the country for several years, but without any legislative framework. "This...
Italian doctors encouraged by the Order not to practice euthanasia in the event of decriminalisation
The Italian President of the National Federation of the Order of Doctors and Dentists is of the opinion that even if the Italian Parliament one day legalizes euthanasia, no doctor should practice it, since the Code of Medical Ethics clearly states that “the doctor,...
Euthanasia legalized in the state of New Jersey
On 12 April, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed legislation allowing euthanasia for terminally ill patients. The bill will take effect on 01 August 2019. The law makes it possible for terminal adult patients who are “conscious and in possession of all their...
The data security of the Ovia Health app is not guaranteed
In a survey published last Wednesday, the Washington Post revealed the other side of the success of pregnancy apps like Ovia Healthin the United States. Ovia Health, founded in Boston in 2012, has more than 10 million users. In exchange for a variety...
USA: Two states advance legislation to protect babies who survive abortion
Last Monday and Tuesday, North Carolina lawmakers and then the Senate passed a bill requiring doctors and nurses to treat babies born alive after a late-term abortion like any newborn, under penalty of criminal sanctions. A spokesman for Democratic Governor Roy...
The former director of a Dutch fertility clinic is the biological father of at least 49 children
DNA testing has revealed its secrets: Jan Karbaat is the genetic father of the 49 children who have been suing him since 2017. This former fertility clinic director, who died two years ago, is suspected of having provided his own sperm instead of donors’ in the 1980s,...
3D-printed human hearts
On Monday, researchers at Tel Aviv University presented "a vascularized prototype of the human heart, printed in 3D using human tissues". According to them, this "inert, cherry-sized heart" represents a "breakthrough" in "treating...
Two surrogate mother networks identified in Vietnam
Yen, aged 31, and Hue, aged 35, are being investigated in Vietnam for "organizing commercial surrogacy". Hue said that she met a man, Yang, who introduced himself as a hospital director. For a fee of 50-60 million dongs ($2,100-2,500), she made an agreement...
Twelve countries have an unbalanced ‘sex ratio’ due to the abortion of young girls
There is a global shortfall of 23.1 million women, including 11.9 million in China and 10.6 million in India. In 2017 alone, 800,000 girls were aborted in China and 671,000 in India. Researchers from the United Nations, the University of Singapore and the University...
The United Arab Emirates authorizes freezing of human embryos
A law approved yesterday by the United Arab Emirates’ Federal National Council has just authorized married couples to freeze their embryos during a MAR process. The legislators were careful to ensure that "the new legislation complied with Sharia law and that it had...