NEW IVF HAZARD COMES TO LIGHT
Another IVF health hazard unknown to patients but widely discussed amongst fertility experts has been dragged from the shadows. According to British specialists, the powerful...
LEADING JOURNAL EATS HUMBLE PIE OVER HWANG
After eating humble pie over the publication of fraudulent research by disgraced South Korean stem cell researcher Hwang Woo-suk, the journal Science has made some...
AUSTRALIAN MPS DEBATE THERAPEUTIC CLONING
The Australian Parliament is creeping towards closure on the contentious issue of therapeutic cloning. A private member's bill authorising it passed the Senate last month,...
PATIENTS CARE ABOUT CURES, NOT CONFLICT OF INTEREST
More than a third of doctors who sit on review boards overseeing the integrity of clinical trials do not bother to disclose a financial stake...
PETER SINGER EXPLAINS SUPPORT FOR VIVISECTION
Animal rights activists are aghast at the news that their intellectual godfather, Australian philosopher Peter Singer, is prepared to support animal experimentation in some cases....
PRIVATE FUNDING ENOUGH FOR STEM CELL RESEARCH,
SAYS LIBERTARIAN THINK TA
Governments should get out of the stem cell research business, argues the bioethics expert at the Cato Institute, an American libertarian think tank. Writing in...
BIOTECH JOBS LOST TO OFFSHORING TREND
One of the most potent political arguments for legalising stem cell research is the threat of job losses. In Australia's recent debate over therapeutic cloning,...
TURF WARS IN COSMETIC SURGERY
A turf war is building up in the US over the lucrative field of cosmetic surgery. Lured by a better lifestyle and higher pay for...
SPANISH WOMAN ASKS FOR EUTHANASIA
A 51-year-old woman with advanced muscular dystrophy is trying to get the Spanish government to legalise euthanasia. Inmaculada Echevarria has been in a hospital bed...
IN BRIEF: animal rights; sperm donors
Buoyed up by the news that a Dutch animal rights party won two seats in parliament last month, activists in the UK have launched a...