CONSENT FORM FOR DRUG TRIAL DISASTER FLAWED, SAY CRITICS
Although British authorities say that a drug trial which made six healthy young men violently ill was conducted properly, critics have savaged their informed consent...
POLITICAL BATTLE LOOMING OVER ETERNAL LIFE
Immortality beckons, says Ronald Bailey, science editor of Reason, an influential American libertarian magazine, and the partisans of mortality are powerless to stop it. Writing...
ECHOES OF HWANG IN POSSIBLE JAPANESE FRAUD
The leading journal Nature is getting abundant experience in dealing with scientific fraud nowadays. Hard on the heels of an investigation into the cloning research...
HWANG DEBACLE MUST NOT HINDER RESEARCH, SAYS SCIENTIST
The Hwang fraud must not hold back human embryonic stem cell research, insists a leading US researcher. Xiangzhong (Jerry) Yang, of the University of Connecticut,...
BELGIAN POLITICIANS WANT EUTHANASIA FOR KIDS
Euthanasia for children under 18 appears to be gaining support in Belgium. Two years ago, a bill was introduced to extend the country's recent euthanasia...
GENE THERAPY SUCCESS IN GERMANY
In the first apparent success for gene therapy in adults, two German men have been cured of an genetic immune deficiency which made them vulnerable...
FEDERAL SPENDING ON EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS INCREASING
Despite complaints about the Bush Administration's restrictive policy on human embryonic stem cell research, the US government spent more than US$37 million on it last...
HIM AND HER TUMMY TUCKS
Ageing couples are having cosmetic surgery together as a way of bonding or of keeping their relationship alive, according to the Los Angeles Times. "Men...
INDIAN SURROGATE MOTHERS WORKING FOR OVERSEAS CLIENTS
Surrogacy has swollen into a US$449 million [sic] industry in India, according to a report in the Christian Science Monitor. Motherhood on the cheap is...