Call to prosecute “criminal” Israeli doctors over human experiments
A leading Israeli doctor and bioethicist has called for the prosecution of olleagues who did thousands of unauthorised and illegal experiments on children and old...
Chinese scientists ignoring informed consent procedures
Chinese medical researchers often ignore basic standards of ethical oversight in their rush to conduct experiments. A report in the leading journal Nature claims that...
Get tough on ethics education for doctors, says UK judge
Medical students should be weeded out if they fail to meet ethical standards, the chair of the British inquiry into the Shipman murders has told...
Only bigots will oppose cloning, says Savulescu
Australian bioethicist, Julian Savulescu, of Oxford University, has argued that rejecting the possibility of human reproductive cloning is a form of discrimination akin to racism...
Transplant surgeons ignoring long-term health of US donors
Although almost half of the people who donate organs in the US are living donors, there has been no systematic tracking of their health to...
Most Dutch paediatricians favour child euthanasia
A survey of 63 Dutch paediatricians has found that up to 60% would give children a lethal injection if they were in pain from incurable...
San Francisco to be HQ for California’s stem cell institute
Visions of a biomedical boom are floating around San Francisco after the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine announced that the city had been selected as...
No need to destroy embryos, says US bioethics committee
There may be ethical ways to obtain pluripotent, genetically stable, and long-lived stem cells, says the President's Council on Bioethics in . It has identified...
If Terri Schiavo were a New Yorker, would she have died?
In a New York rerun of the Terri Schiavo case, the quarrel of two generations over how to care for an elderly Jewish woman with...
Lesbians and single women to have IVF in Victoria
"Socially infertile" women in the Australian state of Victoria would be allowed to have IVF children if a law reform commission's recommendations are adopted. This...