DOCTORS QUERY ETHICS OF FIRST FACE TRANSPLANT
French surgeons have performed the world's first face transplant, a development which has provoked mixed reactions amongst their colleagues and bioethicists. The patient is a...
STOP FIRST COUSIN MARRIAGES, SAYS BRITISH MP
A government campaign is needed to make British Pakistanis aware of the medical risks of cousin marriages, says a Labour MP. Ann Cryer says that...
TRADE IN PRISONERS’ ORGANS EXISTS, CHINA ADMITS, AT LAST
Chinese authorities have admitted for the fist time that organs from executed prisoners are being sold to ailing foreigners. According to the London Times, Huang...
NOSE CELLS MAY HELP SPINAL CORD INJURIES
After 20 years of preparation, a British researcher has announced that he will use adult stem cells to try to cure or at least help...
BACK TO THE CLONING DRAWING BOARD?
Therapeutic cloning has taken another body blow with a report in a leading journal that cloned embryos appear to be genetically normal, even though most...
DUTCH TO FORMALISE BABY EUTHANASIA PROCEDURES
The Dutch government is to set up a commission to oversee the euthanasia of seriously ill newborns. The commission will be able to approve late...
CHANGE INFORMED CONSENT STANDARDS, SAYS US BIOETHICIST
With South Korean researchers under the hammer for allegedly lax informed consent procedures, it is interesting to note a strain of thought in the US...
IN BRIEF: NZ euthanasia; IVF defects
New Zealand: Australian euthanasia activist Dr Philip Nitschke plans to move to New Zealand in January to carry on his campaign from Auckland. However, the...