CANADIAN DOCTORS ABANDON SPECIALTIES FOR BOTOX
Canadian doctors are embracing cosmetic surgery and abandoning less lucrative fields, says the magazine Macleans. "In 15 minutes I can inject Botox and make three,...
ANONYMOUS SPERM DONOR PASSED ON DEADLY MUTATION
Somewhere in the US is a sperm donor who has passed a deadly gene to five children born to four couples. Writing in the Journal...
SPAIN TO CONSIDER GIVING APES RIGHTS
A bill in the Spanish Parliament has given fresh heart to philosopher Peter Singer in his struggle to extend the basic rights of life, liberty...
THE HFEA’S SLIPPERY SLOPE ATTACKED
Slate's bioethics correspondent has made a scathing attack on this month's decision by the UK's fertility regulator to allow pre- implantation genetic diagnosis for flawed...
PROS AND CONS OF CLINICAL TRIALS IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD
Whether clinical drug trials should be conducted in the developing world is a thorny and intractable issue, says Slate columnist Amanda Schaffer in MIT's Technology...
AMERICAN SEX SELECTION CLINICS HELP THOUSANDS
Thousands of couples are travelling to clinics in the US where they can choose the sex of their next child. Dr Jeffrey Steinberg, the leading...
CANADIAN IN ROW OVER SWISS SUICIDE CLINIC
A Canadian psychologist who brought a friend to an assisted suicide clinic in Zurich, where she killed herself, is being accused of serious professional misconduct....
PARTNERLESS 63-YEAR-OLD DAD OF TRIPLETS IS NORMAL GUY
The first man in the UK to have children without a female partner has just published a second edition of his book on raising triplets...
HWANG’S EGG COUNT RISES
The number of eggs used by disgraced Korean stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk keeps climbing. He originally claimed that he had used only 427 eggs...
NIGERIAN DIES IN QUEUE FOR HEART TRANSPLANT
The ethical dilemmas involved in allocating organs for transplants became painfully real in the UK after a Nigerian woman who had overstayed her visa died...
IN BRIEF: Dignitas; animal rights, mercy killing
Animal rights law: The host of the American TV show "The Price is Right" has donated US$1 million to Georgetown University Law School to expand...