BIOEDGE ON HOLIDAYS
CALIFORNIA GIRDS UP FOR DEBATE OVER ASSISTED SUICIDE Legislators in California are preparing for a debate over assisted suicide, following last week's Supreme Court ruling...
FLOOD OF ELDERLY TO FILL CALIFORNIA’S PRISONS
Australian euthanasia activist Dr Philip Nitschke recently mused that euthanasia could become the "last frontier in prison reform". This is far from likely, but California's...
ALL THE LONELY PEOPLE
About 60 people in England die alone, uncared for and in poverty each week, according to a report by the health spokesman for the Liberal...
BELGIAN EUTHANASIA DOC AT WORK IN FRANCE
A Belgian surgeon who has admitted euthanasing several patients illegally in her own country is being questioned over the death of a 74-year-old patient in...
EIGHT A DAY EUTHANASED IN BRITAIN, SURVEY CLAIMS
As many as eight people were euthanased every day in Britain in 2004, according to a study in the journal Palliative Medicine. The figures are...
CAPTAIN KIRK STILL PRODUCING STAR TREK MEMORABILIA
Here's the ultimate in organ donation kitsch: a kidney stone passed by the commander of the Starship Enterprise has been sold to an on-line gaming...
KOREAN ADULT STEM CELL THERAPY FAILS
A paralysed Korean woman who took some faltering steps after treatment with adult stem cells in 2004 says that her treatment has failed badly. She...
NO MORE FREE RIDES?
The idea that people have a moral duty to participate in medical research may be gaining traction. The notion surfaced last year when utilitarian British...
CLAWS CAUSE ANGST
Animal rights activists are campaigning for humane treatment of lobsters, a move which alarms fishermen in the American state of Maine. "These creatures are suffering...
CORNELL UPDATES HIPPOCRATIC OATH
A leading American medical school has revised the Hippocratic Oath to take account of contemporary values. Weill Cornell Medical College's version is more inclusive and...
IN BRIEF: cloning; depression; Australia; fakes
Stem cells: Scientists at the Whitehead Institute for BioMedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, claim that stem cells from cloned embryos are likely to be safe...