US doctors cooperating in detainee interrogation, says NEJM
US Army doctors are lending unethical cooperation in the interrogation of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, an article in the New England Journal of Medicine...
Schiavo feud smoulders on
Even Terri Schiavo's burial plot is marked by controversy. Her ashes have been buried in a Florida cemetery under a grave marker designed by her...
Dangerous theory or ‘armless joke?
Perhaps this is merely an academic curio without real world consequences -- but here goes. Two Australian philosophers have argued in an international journal that...
Are chimeras the way ahead?
Blending humans with animals is not the sort of ethical issue that most people deal with from day-to-day. But it is becoming increasingly important in...
Adult stem cells begin clinical trials
The Boston Globe has profiled the financial and therapeutic potential of adult stem cell treatments being developed by Osiris Therapeutics, a company in Baltimore. Osiris...
Adult stem cells learn multiplication
One of the criticisms levelled at adult stem cells is that they cannot multiply in the laboratory nearly as well as embryonic stem cells. But...
IVF developments featured in Copenhagen conference
The annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology took place in Copenhagen this year, drawing thousands of experts on fertility and...
American doctors profess their faith
American doctors are a religious lot. A survey of 1,044 doctors has found that 76% believe in God, 59% believe in an afterlife, and 55%...
IN BRIEF: killer nurse; cancer ignorance; anthrax kids
A former nurse who has already admitted to killing 24 patients in New Jersey and Pennsylvania has remembered that he killed another five. A lawyer...