ETHICS DEBATE DELAYS CALIFORNIA EXECUTION
The execution of a California man convicted of rape, torture and murder 25 years ago has been delayed because of ethical scruples by two doctors...
HWANG’S AMERICAN COLLEAGUE SLAPPED ON WRIST
The American co-author of disgraced Korean stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk has been found innocent of research misconduct, but guilty of "research misbehaviour" after an...
IN THE WAKE OF THE HWANG DEBACLE
A new South Korean science and technology minister wants to give Hwang Woo-suk and his team a second chance. Kim Woo-sik says that the scientist...
BELGIAN EUTHANASIA RISING
Belgian doctors reported nearly 400 cases of euthanasia in 2005, up from about 200 after it was legalised in 2002. However, Wim Distelmans, of Brussels...
DETAILS EMERGE OF KATRINA’S MERCY KILLINGS
Rumours of patients in a hospital being euthanased in the chaotic days after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans are probably true, according to secret court...
BIOETHICIST SLAMS CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION
Amongst the paradoxes of contemporary bioethics are simultaneous appeals to individual conscience as the arbiter of murky moral issues and disdain for conscientious objection by...
MIT RESEARCHERS MULTIPLY ADULT STEM CELLS
One of the drawbacks of adult stem cells is that they have proved hard to "expand", or multiply, in the lab. Now MIT researchers have...
IN BRIEF: sex selection; PGD; face transplant
India sex selection: Despite an increasingly skewed sex ratio resulting from the abortion of girl foetuses and despite harsh laws banning sex selection, almost no...