PFIZER SUED BY NIGERIA OVER DRUG TRIAL
For the first time, a developing country is pursuing a Big Pharma company over a badly conducted drug trial. Nigeria is suing Pfizer for carrying...
WE WERE HOAXED
Along with everyone else, BioEdge has been hoaxed by a Dutch reality TV show. Last week we reported that a woman dying of a brain...
IVF EXPERT PUTS BOOT INTO IVF INDUSTRY
The contrarian Lord Robert Winston, one of the pioneers of IVF, has once again attacked his colleagues in the IVF industry, this time for having...
US GOVT TO STOP BREEDING CHIMPANZEES FOR RESEARCH
The National Institutes of Health in the US has declared that it will no longer breed chimpanzees for medical research. Although since 1995 a temporary...
PEPSI AND COCA-COLA TO ABANDON ANIMAL TESTING
The radical animal welfare group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has scored a big win in its campaign to stop animal testing of...
IVF BEGINS IN UGANDA
Glowing newspaper profiles of IVF doctors who bring bundles of joy to desperate couples are common enough in the US, the UK and Australia. But...
SWISS SUICIDE CLINIC UNDER ATTACK
Despite the publicity given to Swiss suicide clinics, not all Swiss are happy with a law which allows foreigners to seek help in killing themselves....
SPERM DONORS UNDERVALUED, SAYS STUDY
The fertility industry discriminates against sperm donors, says US sociologist Rene Almeling. Her article this month in the American Sociological Review describes striking inequities in...
KEVORKIAN LEAVES JAIL
Jack Kevorkian, the American doctor jailed after assisting with more 130 suicides, has been paroled from a Michigan jail. In an interview with the New...
MEDICAL TOURISM SOARING
International medical tourism has become a US$60 billion industry which is growing at the galloping pace of 20% a year. Patients in Europe and North...
IN BRIEF: sextuplets; assisted suicide; coma
Foetal reduction: A Florida woman on fertility treatment is pregnant with sextuplets. Karoline Byler and her husband Ben were shocked. But when doctors suggested foetal...