CLONING PIONEER HITS THE WALL
Researchers who want to clone human embryos and create stem cells are facing the biggest public relations disaster in the history of their fledgling science....
KOREAN STAMP OF APPROVAL
Newspaper accounts of the Hwang debacle brought to light something that BioEdge missed earlier in the year: a South Korea postage stamp honouring his achievement....
ETHICS OF EPIDEMICS NEEDED, SAYS CANADIAN STUDY
Governments need to set ethical standards now for dealing with a possible influenza epidemic, says a Canadian bioethics thinktank. Based on the experience of the...
KENTUCKY SURROGATE MOTHER BEARS CHILD FOR NOVELIST
A messy surrogacy lawsuit is looming in Massachusetts which pits a best-selling novelist, her husband and her surrogate mother against the surrogate's estranged husband. Jacquelyn...
SURROGACY CHANGES MOOTED IN AUSTRALIA
Adoption law should be liberalised to allow single people and gay couples to engage surrogate mothers, says a major report in the Australian state of...
IVF COMPLICATIONS HIT 1 IN 7
After IVF treatment one woman in seven is hospitalised with serious complications, Finnish researchers have found. This is almost twice the number for natural pregnancies,...
NEW EUTHANASIA FILM ON THE WAY
Close on the heels of Oscar-winning euthanasia films "Million Dollar Baby" and "Mar Adentro" ("The Sea Inside"), Hollywood producer Steve Jones is working on a...
ABORTION DRUG INVESTIGATED OVER FOUR DEATHS
Following the deaths of four women who took the abortion drug RU- 486, Federal drug regulators in the US have announced that they will convene...
IN BRIEF: ultimate Xmas gift; morning-after pill
A leading New York cosmetic surgeon is offering "the most expensive and extensive plastic surgery procedure in history" as the ultimate Christmas gift. For US$1...