INDIAN SEX SELECTION DOCTOR JAILED
Twelve years after a law was passed banning Indian doctors from helping pregnant women to select the sex of their children, two medical professionals have...
US DOCTORS GROW ARTIFICIAL BLADDER
In a major advance toward artificial organs, bladders grown from patients' own cells in the laboratory were implanted in seven children with spina bifida and...
MARYLAND JOINS EMBRYONIC STEM CELL CLUB
A fourth American state has voted help to fund embryonic stem cell research. The Maryland legislature has passed a bill authorising US$15 million in grants...
PUZZLE OVER JAPANESE EUTHANASIA CASE
A trickle of conflicting information about a Japanese surgeon accused of the mercy killing of seven patients shows the importance of terminology in discussing euthanasia....
TERRI’S RELATIVES STILL IN TRENCHES
A year after the death of Terri Schiavo, the controversy over whether the brain-damaged woman should have died still rages, but in bookshops and talk...
DRUG TRIAL CHANGES MOOTED
German authorities are considering changes to how drug trials are conducted because of a disastrous outcome in London last month. Six British volunteers became violently...
DESIGNER BABY” CLINIC TO OPEN IN UK
Britain's first made-to-order baby clinic is to open in Nottingham within 3 months, the London Telegraph reports. The ?5 million facility will be able to...
BABY BUSINESS ROUND-UP
Tbilisi, Georgia | Unregulated surrogacy has opened up market opportunities in Georgia, EurasiaNet reports. The Surrogate Motherhood Centre, a clinic supported by the Ministry of...