SCANDAL THREATENS TO SINK KOREAN CLONING PROJECT
Only days after the world's leading embryonic stem cell researcher began receiving thousands of applications from sick patients who want him to make therapeutic clones...
KOREAN EGG BLACK MARKET
Hwang's research could even land one of his colleagues in jail. Dr Roh Sung-il, who runs an infertility clinic in Seoul and is a key...
FINDING SPERM DONOR DADS ON THE INTERNET
An ingenious 15-year-old boy has proved that preserving sperm donor anonymity may be nearly impossible. The boy had been conceived with donor sperm and wanted...
PATIENTS DIE WHILE WAITING FOR LIVERS
Medical ethics includes competent management. This seems to be the lesson from a scandal exposed by the Los Angeles Times in which more than 30...
AUSTRALIANS SUE OVER THEIR “WRONGFUL LIVES”
Two "wrongful life" cases are being studied by the High Court of Australia. One involves Alexia Harriton, a 24-year-old woman who is blind, deaf, spastic...
CREATING KIDS FOR SEX SELECTION RESEARCH
A leading US medical school is to create children to study the social and personal impact of sex selection. Dr Sandra Carson, of Baylor College...
FRUSTRATION CAN LEAD SCIENTISTS INTO TEMPTATION
Thoroughness by institutional review boards can frustrate scientists so much that they will ignore guidelines, break rules and become deceitful, a social science researcher has...
IVF GROWTH SLOWS IN US
Growth of the IVF industry may be slowing as the youngest baby boomers enter their 40s, according to a report in the Boston Globe. IVF...
IN BRIEF: hospices; embryo status; Vioxx; adult stem cells
November is National Hospice Month in the US. The Hospice Foundation of America has a number of publications about its work on its website, www.hospicefoundation.org....