News - Announcements

New Finding for Organ Donors (25.3.2010)
A major study of kidney donations provides the strongest evidence yet that organ donors live just as long as people who go through life with two kidneys.

Turkey bans trips abroad for artificial insemination (15.3.2010)
A new law passed in Turkey has made it a criminal offence for a woman to go abroad and get pregnant via artificial insemination.

IVF doctors to raffle human egg (14.3.2010)
A fertility clinic is raffling a human egg in London to promote its new "baby profiling" service, which circumvents British IVF (in vitro fertilisation) laws.

Defibrillator Implants Often Overlooked in Hospice, End-of-Life Care (8.3.2010)
A large percentage of hospices don't account for patients with defibrillator implants, which can lead to unnecessary-and uncomfortable-shocks to patients, new research shows.

Espagne: manifestation contre l'avortement (8.3.2010)
Le 7 mars 2010, plusieurs milliers de personnes ont manifesté à Madrid contre la nouvelle loi légalisant l'interruption volontaire de grossesse (IVG) jusqu'à la 14e semaine.