DOWN SYNDROME SCREENING COULD BECOME UNIVERSAL IN US
All pregnant American women should be offered screening for Down syndrome in their first trimestre, not just over-35s, according to guidelines from the American College...
GOOD OLD MUM
A 67-year-old Spanish woman became the world's oldest new mother when she gave birth to twins in Barcelona in December. The babies are said to...
MAN AT CENTRE OF ITALIAN EUTHANASIA DEBATE DIES
Stage 1 of a controversy over the fate of a Italian man paralysed by muscular dystrophy has finished. Cutting through legal and medical debate, anaesthetist...
CRIMINALS INVOLVED IN UNCONVENTIONAL STEM CELL TREATMENTS
It's hardly mainstream medicine, but advances in stem cell technology and organ transplantation have created opportunities for ghastly exploitation of babies and children by unscrupulous...
STEM CELL CRITIC SHOWN THE DOOR BY MIT
A controversial critic of embryonic stem cell research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has cited racism as the reason why he was denied tenure....
OPPOSITION TO STEM CELL RESEARCH WILL DISAPPEAR,
SAYS RESEARCH CHIEF
The head of the UK's Medical Research Council, Oxford professor , has predicted that opposition to embryonic stem cell research by religious absolutists will evaporate...
WE’RE TRAILING CHINA AND SINGAPORE, SAY US SCIENTISTS
American scientists are playing the patriotism card in their efforts to lift restrictions on embryonic stem cell research. While their colleagues in Singapore, China and...
CHANGES ON HORIZON FOR IVF
A new form of IVF could revolutionise fertility treatment by cutting down on the need for high doses of potentially harmful hormones. Instead of stimulating...