Did hospital doctors euthanase their patients in Katrina chaos?
Staff doctors in a New Orleans hospital may have euthanased critically ill patients with massive doses of morphine in the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina....
Katrina reopens debate about goals of bioethics
Thousands of dead in filthy flood waters, threats of massive outbreaks of disease, hundreds of thousands of homeless, accusations of racism, and the catastrophic failure...
Kass resigns as chair of US bioethics council
leon R. Kass, the University of Chicago ethicist who was the brains behind the Bush administration's bioethics policy, has resigned as the chairman of the...
Mystery of stolen Ukrainian newborn children
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has demanded that Ukrainian authorities seriously investigate claims that newborn children are being stolen for adoptions...
Saut?ed stem cells, anyone?
Researchers in Europe and the US are testing the potential of adult stem cells not just for medicine but for food. According to the news...
British approve embryos with two mothers
British scientist shave been given permission to create human embryos which will have two genetic mothers and one father. A group from Newcastle University is...
Using human embryos to test drugs will save animal lives
The Scottish scientist who created Dolly the sheep, the world's first cloned mammal, Ian Wilmut, says that using embryonic stem cells to test drugs is...
Informed consent process often mired in paperwork
Despite elaborate protocols to ensure that patients have given informed consent to surgery, too often it is just a formality, writes Judy Foreman in the...
Clarification about artificial wombs
BioEdge 175 reported that Israeli ethicist Frida Simonstein, of Ben Gurion University, had "proposed the creation of artificial wombs to solve social and medical reproductive...
IN BRIEF: medical students; Chernobyl
American medical students are being courted by drug companies with gifts and free seminars. According to a study in the Journal of the American Medical...