EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS TO PROVIDE CHEAP MODELS FOR DRUG DISCOVERY
Human embryonic stem cells could "revolutionise" drug discovery and testing, according to an article in the latest issue of the journal Nature Reviews Drug Discovery....
LONDON IVF DOCTOR TANGLES WITH REGULATOR
The livelihood of Britain's most successful IVF doctor is at risk after he was found guilty of treating patients without a correct licence. , a...
GENETIC ANGER MANAGEMENT IN AUSTRALIA
A campaign to encourage parents to tell donor-conceived children about their origins has prompted a lively discussion in the opinion pages of one of Australia's...
IS SEX SELECTION MIGRATING TO CANADA?
Punjabi newspapers in Canada are advertising ultrasound clinics which appear to be promoting sex selective abortion, says the head of an immigrant society. "You are...
SHOULD PATIENTS BE PAID TO TAKE THEIR MEDICINE?
Drug addicts will be given shopping vouchers if they agree to be treated and stay clean, unveiled by the UK's National Institute for Health and...
ELECTRODES ROUSE MAN FROM SIX-YEAR SLUMBER
A man who received a "pacemaker for the brain" has partially recovered from a minimally conscious state. After six years of almost complete inability to...
SCOTTISH DOCTORS LOBBY FOR PRESUMED CONSENT
IN ORGAN DONATION
The British Medical Association will campaign for the introduction of an opt-out system for organ donation in Scotland. George Foulkes, a Labour member of both...
AUSTRALIAN PRIZE FOR HUMAN CLONING
Now that cloning has been legalised in Australia, its largest state is offering a A$500,000 prize to the first scientist to succeed in cloning human...
CLONED UNTO FOURTH GENERATION AND STILL HEALTHY
A Japanese team has successfully produced the world's first fourth- generation cloned large mammal -- a piglet. This suggests that a large mammal can be...