India’s head doctor backs coercive population control
India needs a coercive one-child policy like China's, says the president of the Indian Medical Association, Sudipto Roy. His controversial proposal was quickly disavowed by...
Euthanasia of Dutch Alzheimer’s patient approved
The first reported case of a Dutch doctor killing an Alzheimer's patient was lawful, according a regional euthanasia committee. It denied that this case showed...
Forget about therapeutic cloning, says Alan Trounson
Although the prospect of miracle cures from therapeutic cloning has been used to sell California voters on a US$3 billion stem cell research institute, one...
Did Dutch researchers put publication before public health?
Dutch researchers concealed an outbreak of an STD in Europe so that they could publish a paper about it in an academic journal, the Dutch...
Double standard for US clinical ethics, activists allege
The US Food and Drug Administration wants one standard for research ethics at home and another for clinical trials in developing countries, health activists have...
UK health watchdog backs age discrimination
Refusing elderly patients treatment or drugs can sometimes be justified, says the watchdog for UK's National Health Service. "Where age is an indicator of benefit...
Long-term studies of PGD needed, says British expert
The health of children born after pre-implantation genetic diagnosis should be monitored for five years, says Professor Peter Braude, of King's College London. Developed 15...
Fireman’s recovery after 10 years puzzles doctors
In a case which was reported around the world in the wake of the debate over Terri Schiavo, a fireman who was severely brain-damaged 10...
Adult stem cell cures move a step closer to reality
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found a method of multiplying adult stem cells indefinitely, a step towards making them an effective therapy....
Where’s the ounce of prevention, asks Australian IVF researcher
Debates over IVF treatment are ignoring the primary question of how infertility can be prevented, says one of Australia's leading epidemiologists, Dr Fiona Stanley. She...
ABI in the media
by Dr Amin Abboud, The Age (Melbourne), May 6 IN BRIEF: gay sperm donors; 9/11 and foetal stress; Gay sperm donors: Gay rights activists...