THE BIOEDGE BICENTENNIAL
BioEdge celebrates its 200th anniversary today. We launched the newsletter at a propitious time -- in August 2001, the week after US President George Bush...
DRUG WAS CULPRIT, NOT TRIAL DESIGN, SAYS REPORT
A preliminary investigation into the UK drug trial which made six healthy young volunteers critically ill has blamed the drug, not the trial design or...
WHAT’S IN A NAME? AN ETHICAL CONUNDRUM, THAT’S WHAT
Many diseases and syndromes are better known by the name of the doctor who first described them. Take Reiter's syndrome, for example, a disorder that...
WHO OWNS YOUR PROSTATE BIOPSY?
A dispute between a doctor-researcher, some of his patients, and his former university about ownership of tissue samples has ended in a victory for the...
SOME STEM CELLS CURE, BUT OTHERS KILL
Not all stem cells work for the Jedi, scientists have learned. Some work for the Dark Side and cause cancer. In a conceptual revolution in...
NORTH CAROLINA DOCTORS LEND A HAND IN EXECUTION
The issue of American health professionals cooperating in legal executions has arisen again, this time in North Carolina. On April 21 61-year-old Willie Brown was...
CHILDREN OF DONOR EGGS AND SPERM SELDOM TOLD
A British study has found that most children conceived with donated eggs or sperm are not told about their origins, although most IVF children are....
HWANG SAGA DRAGS ON? IN THE US
The sorry saga of disgraced Korean stem cell researcher Hwang Woo- suk has an American sequel. Questions are still being raised about the work of...
KANSAS ABORTION DISPUTE
Abortion opponents in the midwest state of Kansas have invoked an obscure law to force an investigation into the death of a mentally- retarded woman...
IN BRIEF: organ sales, nurse killer, California
Organ sales: The British Transplantation Society claims that there is growing evidence that the organs of thousands of executed prisoners in China are being removed...