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US President George W. Bush this week signed a law confirming the rights of foetuses by making it a crime to harm an "unborn child"...
US bioethics panel advises tighter IVF regulation
President Bush's council of bioethics advisers has recommended tighter regulation of assisted reproduction in a lengthy report which skirts controversy. Although was sceptical of assisted...
South Africa: mecca for human organ trade?
Although South Africa has become a linchpin in the world transplant tourism market over the past five years, its government, doctors and hospitals have turned...
Hollywood “disease activists” campaign for stem cell funding
With the help of Hollywood glitterati whose children have diabetes, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRF) is lobbying hard to get California voters to...
Sweden debates germline gene therapy
A government committee in Sweden has recommended that therapeutic cloning be legalised and that scientists be allowed to do research on germline gene therapy. Although...
US hospital loses suit to withdraw life support
An elderly woman with Lou Gehrig's disease will continue to live on a life-support system after Massachusetts General Hospital failed to persuade a court to...
Monash IVF opens clinic in China
One of Australia's leading IVF clinics has opened a joint venture in Shanghai. The Shanghai Daily News reports that Monash IVF and the Shanghai International...
IN BRIEF: pigs and surgeons; Zavos back; Viagra; Texas gift
Animal lovers and human surgeons in the UK have clashed over using pigs as practice for junior surgeons. Currently the law only allows the use...