WE NEED NON-VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA, SAYS BRITISH EXPERT
An ethical adviser to the British Medical Association has firmly backed non-voluntary euthanasia for patients who are too ill to ask for death. Professor Len...
SEX SELECTION SPREADS TO CANADA WITH MIGRANTS
The practice of selectively aborting girls is spreading from India and China to Canada as immigrant communities take root there. Normally the ratio of boy...
HARVARD TO BEGIN EMBRYO CLONING
Harvard University has decided to become the first non-commercial institution in the US to attempt human embryo cloning. Researchers will focus on diabetes, neurodegenerative diseases...
INSTITUTION REVIEW BOARDS DROWNING IN PAPERWORK
American institutional review boards are drowning in paperwork and the resulting frustration could "alienate some researchers enough to turn them into scofflaws", says an editorial...
CONTROVERSIAL DOCTOR COULD BE DEREGISTERED
The British doctor who sparked an international health scare by claiming the standard measles, mumps, rubella vaccine was linked to autism may be charged with...
ORGANS GO TO RICH QUEUE-JUMPERS
Some American patients get priority on organ donor lists by signing up on several lists, creating a system in which the wealthy have a better...
AUSTRALIAN ECHO OF SCHIAVO CASE
A family dispute over the fate of a brain-damaged Adelaide man echoes the bitter controversy over Terri Schiavo. Mark Leigep, 31, a single father, was...
CZECH WOMAN DIES IN CAGED BED
The parents of a mentally ill Czech woman are suing a hospital after she died in a controversial caged bed. An estimated 700 patients are...
MEDIA HYPE AND MEDICAL RESEARCH
Media accounts of medical research are often based on unpublished results at professional conferences and omit important information, say Dartmouth researchers. Writing in the Medical...
IN BRIEF: stem cells; baby of brain-dead woman
Stem cells from testicles: Deep inside testicles lies a rich source of stem cells -- perhaps 0.3% of their tissue. Now British scientists plan to...