FACE TRANSPLANT PATIENT SELLS HER STORY
The world's first face transplant patient, Isabelle Dinoire, signed a film deal three months before her operation, the London Times, has revealed. Some doctors were...
THREE PROBES LAUNCHED INTO HWANG’S RESEARCH
Three investigations have been launched into the research of therapeutic cloning pioneer Hwang Woo-suk, of South Korea. The journal Science, in which his article about...
ISRAELI COUNTDOWN TO DEATH
An electric timer, rather than the hand of a doctor, will shut off life support for terminally Israeli patients who have a living will. A...
NEJM FLEXES ITS MUSCLES IN MERCK LAWSUIT
The New England Medical Journal has intervened in a highly public way to influence lawsuits against the pharmaceutical company Merck over Vioxx's links with heart...
ANIMAL ACTIVISM WANING IN UK, WAXING IN US AND EUROPE
Oxford University has resumed work on a US$35 million biomedical research centre which has been on ice for 18 months because of protests by animal-rights...
DUTCH “SUICIDE CONSULTANT” JAILED
A 73-year-old Dutch man has been jailed in the Netherlands over his role in helping a 25-year-old woman to commit suicide in 2003. The court...
CORD BLOOD SETBACK
Umbilical cord blood has a reputation for being the easiest source of adult stem stems. Businesses have even sprung up to store it at a...
IF IT QUACKS, IT CAN PROVIDE SAFETY DATA
Researchers at prestigious medical schools in the US are telling some of their patients to go overseas for stem cell therapies which are regarded as...
MIT STEM CELL PROFESSOR LASHES THERAPEUTIC CLONING
Fear of reprisals is one reason why some scientists do not oppose therapeutic cloning, says a professor at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Associate...
IN BRIEF: stem cells; abortion pill
STEM CELL LINES: A mere 150 stem cell lines would provide treatments for 40% of the UK population, claim British geneticists. Based on a study...