LATER MOTHERHOOD MAY IMPAIR DAUGHTERS’ FERTILITY
The American Society for Reproductive Medicine has been holding its annual meeting in New Orleans -- always a reliable source of choke- on-your-Cheerios articles for...
ASRM CONFERENCE A FERTILE SOURCE OF NEWS
Here are a few more highlights from the New Orleans meeting: Fifteen minutes watching a medical clown after an IVF cycle bumps pregnancy rates up...
AUSTRALIAN REPORT SPLITS ON CLONING
Another report on the legalisation of therapeutic cloning for the Australian Parliament, written this time by a Senate committee, has split on the issue. By...
TV STEM CELL ADS COULD SWAY ELECTIONS
More and more American celebrities are weighing into the stem cell debate as election day draws closer on November 7. In Missouri, St Louis Cardinals...
TAIWANESE DEVOTION
A Taiwanese couple in their 80s who have been caring for their blind and paralyzed daughter for 53 years have insisted that they would never...
HWANG’S MAMMOTH EXPENSES
With a nuclear-armed maniac rattling his missiles only a few miles away, South Koreans are no longer as focused on their stem cell debacle as...
ANIMAL RIGHTS AND THE HOLOCAUST
Efforts of radical animal rights activists to assert a moral equivalence between the slaughter of animals and the Jewish Holocaust continue. The book Eternal Treblinka,...
OREGON CHANGES NAME OF “PHYSICIAN ASSISTED SUICIDE”
Just as cloning has been rebadged as Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer to shake off its negative connotations, Oregon has decided to rename physician assisted suicide"....
IN BRIEF: Kass, Singapore, custody, euthanasia
Kass: Just in time for Halloween Dr Leon Kass, the former chairman of the US President's Council on Bioethics, has been nominated as one of...