CIA medical personnel involved in torture
Leaked report from Red CrossHealth personnel participated in the torture and interrogation of "high-value" detainees by the US Central Intelligence Agency, according to a leaked...
An inconvenient enthusiast
Al Gore bets on iPS cells First Oprah, now Al. Are America’s opinion leaders jumping from the USS Embryonic Stem Cell and enlisting on the...
Tough decisions about caring for disabled Canadian babies
Three recent cases Canada seems to be the place to go for difficult decisions about end-of-life care for infants. Here are three which are currently...
Grieving Texas mother harvests dead son’s sperm
Part of healing process, she says A Texas woman has persuaded a court to allow her to harvest her 21-year-old son's sperm after his death...
Healthcare workers suffer compassion fatigue
Leads to anxiety, cynicism, chronic tiredness, irritability and problem drinkingHealthcare workers are succumbing to "compassion fatigue" after seeing people suffer and die of cancer or...
Gloves come off in California fertility business
Underside of the industry is not for the faint-hearted Here are some eye drops for starry-eyed clients of men in white coats who help desperate...
Can women’s biological clock be reset?
Mouse research is positiveFertility scientists are excited by the possibility that women may be able to reset their biological clocks. Writing in Nature Cell Biology,...
Obeying the Leviathan
A post-modernist looks at conscience The "conscience clause" has reached the American intellectual stratosphere, Stanley Fish's New York Times blog "Think Again". Fish, one of...