STEM CELL RESEARCHERS PROPOSE INTERNATIONAL GUIDELINES
A group of 60 scientists, doctors, philosophers, lawyers, editors and others have put forward a proposal for international guidelines for stem cell research. "Inconsistent and...
GRONINGEN PROTOCOLS TO BE ADOPTED IN HOLLAND
The Netherlands will become the first country in the world to allow involuntary euthanasia of infants, the London Times reports. After several months of deliberation,...
CAMBODIA DEPORTS EUTHANASIA ACTIVIST
An American who was promoting Cambodia as a euthanasia resort has been deported. The government declared that 57-year-old Roger Graham was endangering the national interest....
PRESSURE FOR EUTHANASIA IN CHINA
A leading government official in China has called for the legalisation of euthanasia. "Conditions are not ripe yet for the nation-level legislation on euthanasia, but...
HWANG ADMITS DATA FABRICATION, SAY INVESTIGATORS
Korean stem cell expert Hwang Woo-suk has told prosecutors that he ordered the fabrication of data to support his claim to have created embryonic stem...
EMBRYOS HAVE HUMAN RIGHTS, SAYS POPE
In an opening speech to a congress on the pre-implantation embryo sponsored by the Pontifical Academy for Life, Pope Benedict XVI has reaffirmed the Catholic...
US ABORTION BATTLE ENTERS NEW PHASE
In a frontal attack on Roe v Wade, the icon of the pro-choice movement, the Republican governor of South Dakota has signed a law banning...
PROMISES, PROMISES
One of the first rules of the sex selection business ought to be: never, ever, say 99.9% accurate. Unfortunately the manufacturers of Baby Gender Mentor,...
FINLAND DEBATES NEW FERTILITY LAW
Supporters of a deregulated environment for assisted reproduction often complain that the world is a patchwork quilt of conflicting and inconsistent legislation. A debate in...
ADULT STEM CELL TRIAL FOR HEART ATTACKS INCONCLUSIVE
German doctors have found that their method of using bone marrow stem cells to repair tissue damaged by heart attacks did not work in a...
A NATION OF GUINEA PIGS
India has become "a nation of guinea pigs", claims Wired journalist Jennifer Kahn. Legislation was passed last year which allows drug companies to test their...
IN BRIEF: IVF; awakenings
IVF: About 40 per cent of parents who were about to embark upon assisted reproductive technology were found to have a psychiatric disorder, Dr Michael...