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THERAPEUTIC CLONING OVERSOLD, SAYS UK EXPERT Therapeutic cloning will be useless in clinical medicine, says one of Britain's leading stem cell biologists. Professor Austin Smith,...
DOLLARS AND CENTS OF VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA
Dollars-and-cents calculations have become part of the debate over assisted suicide and euthanasia, argues a British doctor in the journal Bioethics. Dr Miran Epstein says...
HAIRY EXPERIMENT
Scratching your head over where to find versatile but non- controversial stem cells to replace the embryonic kind? Keep on scratching. Researchers at the Medical...
DADS NOT NEEDED, SAYS UK GOVERNMENT
Fathers will not be required for IVF children under a proposed shake- up of Britain's fertility legislation. The Blair Government feels that a revision is...
EXPANDING THE POOL OF ORGAN DONORS
With 94,000 Americans on an ever-lengthening list of candidates for organ donation, transplant surgeons are eager to expand the pool of potential donors. An op-ed...
PRIMATES NEEDED FOR RESEARCH, SAYS UK RESEARCHER
Four centres of excellence should be established to carry out experiments on primates because they are essential for medical research, claim UK experts in an...
KOREAN COME-BACK KID
Disgraced stem cell researcher Hwang Woo-suk is making a quiet return to scientific research, even though he is still in the middle of a trial...
KEVORKIAN TO BE PAROLED
Convicted murderer and euthanasia activist Jack Kevorkian has been granted parole. He has promised not to participate in any more assisted suicides. Kevorkian was convicted...
IN BRIEF: serial killers; another fake; blood substitute
Serial killers: At least 90 health care professionals have been prosecuted for killing more than 2,000 patients since 1970, according to a study in the...