Korean team proves that therapeutic cloning is possible
A team of Korean scientists has stunned the scientific world with its rapid progress towards therapeutic cloning. Woo-Suk Hwang and his colleagues have successfully created...
Reaction to Korean cloning story
US President George Bush has condemned stem cell advances in South Korea and declared that he would veto any legislation aimed at loosening restriction on...
The other kind of cloning becomes agenda item
Although Woo-Suk Hwang made it clear that making babies was definitely not on his agenda, the news prompted Michael Kinsley, of the Los Angeles Times,...
British scientists call for stem cell reality check
Three of the UK's leading stem cell scientists have reminded their colleagues that the safety and efficacy of stem cells has yet to be proven....
Illegal group ferrying Britons to Zurich to die
A former head of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society in the UK has set up a secret group to subsidise travel to a Swiss suicide clinic....
Living wills won’t save money
The US Health and Human Services Secretary has been forced to clarify his proposal to use living wills to slash the soaring cost of end-of-life...
US animal rights activists target medical labs
Some animal rights activists in the US are becoming increasingly radical, according to a report by Associated Press. Last month, in a typical incident, extremists...
Correction
In last week's newsletter, BioEdge 159, we inadvertently muddled the name of the chair of the British inquiry into the Shipman murders. She is Dame...
ABI in the media
by Michael Cook, The Australian, May 23 IN BRIEF: Medical errors; Surrogacy; Medical errors: About 98,000 Americans die each year because of medical mistakes,...