US SENATE FAILS TO LIBERALISE STEM CELL RESEARCH
Although the US Senate has passed a bill loosening restrictions on embryonic stem cell research by a vote of 63 to 37, President Bush is...
DADS TO BE SUPERFLUOUS IN NEW UK LEGISLATION
British fathers are to be deemed redundant in the most radical shake-up of fertility laws in 16 years. The Blair Labour government is studying reforms...
AUSTRALIAN STEM CELLS ACCORD MAY FRACTURE
Australia may be moving towards a US model of embryo research regulation: a chequerboard of conflicting state and national laws. At last weekend's council of...
PRISONERS RETURN AS RESEARCH SUBJECTS
A major US government report has recommended that prisoners be allowed to participate in clinical trials. This is a practice that has been under a...
I’M 16 AND I CAN REFUSE TREATMENT IF I WANT TO”
In another tricky case of informed consent, a 16-year-old Virginia boy has refused to undergo a second round of chemotherapy for Hodgkin's disease. Starchild Abraham...
TEXAS “FUTILE CARE” LAW UNDER ATTACK AGAIN
Another weakness in Texas's futile care law has emerged in the case of a woman who suffered brain damage after her breathing tube became disconnected...
CURES FROM DANDRUFF?
Looking for new sources of multipotent stem cells? Try dandruff. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have found that hair follicles are...
HUMAN EGG TRADE HAS A HUMAN COST
The desire of older professional women to bear IVF children with donated eggs relies upon exploited women in Eastern Europe, the London Daily Mail claims....
IN BRIEF: India, Britain, US
Peasant misery: Overwhelmed by their struggle with the land, 35 farmers in the Indian state Maharashtra have written to the Indian president seeking euthanasia. A...