TRY ANIMAL MODELS BEFORE CLONING HUMANS, SAYS BRITISH SCIENTIST
One of the best-documented critiques of cloning human embryos has appeared in the latest issue of the Journal of Medical Ethics. In an article entitled...
“FUTILE CARE” LAW UNDER FIRE IN TEXAS
A "futile care" law in Texas has come under fire from anti- euthanasia activists after doctors allegedly gave up on a 54-year- old woman who...
STANFORD TRIALS “DIAL AN ETHICIST” SERVICE FOR SCIENTISTS
The growing awareness of bioethics has given rise to institutional review boards which oversee and regulate federally funded research in the US. But often scientists...
BIG PHARMA PUTS SALES BEFORE SCIENCE, SAY CRITICS
Drug manufacturers are placing salesmanship before science, according to critics cited in Wired magazine. "The dominance of marketing over research has done real damage to...
GERIATRIC MERCY KILLINGS
A 83-year-old Texas man dying of cancer who had nursed his partially paralysed wife for 13 years has been charged with her murder. Doctors say...
EUTHANASIA RISES IN NETHERLANDS
The 2005 figures for legal euthanasia in the Netherlands show a slight increase on the previous year. The Regional Oversight Boards for Euthanasia says that...
TRUDGING AFTER HWANG
Although the work of Korean stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk has been exposed as a fraud, at least seven groups around the world are attempting...
OVERHAUL CLINICAL TRIALS, SAYS NIH
Procedures for clinical trials must be revised to protect the public and restore public faith in medicine, says the director of the US National Institutes...
IN BRIEF: IVF for assassin; dignity in UK hospitals
IVF for Israeli assassin: The Israeli High Court of Justice has issued an injunction to prevent the killer of former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin from...