UK fertility watchdog “not fit for purpose”
HFEA needs thorough reform, says academic An expert in patient safety has delivered a blistering attack on the UK’s fertility watchdog after embryo mix-ups in...
Startling analysis of Belgian euthanasia
Widespread, often involuntary and often illegal A review of legal euthanasia in Belgium suggests that it is widespread, often involuntary and often illegal. In an...
The other banking crisis
Sperm supplies in UK drying up British sperm banks are so down on their uppers that the Progress Educational Trust has organised an evening debate...
Another face transplant success
Woman appears at press conference Connie Culp showed off her new face this week, five years after her husband blew her old one away with...
China cracks down on surrogacy agencies
Violating one-child policy China’s draconian one-child policy is colliding with a rapidly growing demand for surrogate mothers. According to a report in Reuters, the government...
Nitschke given frosty welcome in UK
"Dangerous man" says Debbie Purdy Australia’s leading euthanasia activist, Dr Philip Nitschke, is making a splash in a tour of the UK. There was an...
Plastinated necrophilia in Berlin exhibit
Gunther von Hagens again Ever pushing public taste and human dignity to the limit, the controversial German body artist Gunther von Hagens features a copulating...
Data on Down’s Syndrome test “mishandled”
Sequenom’s shares plunge A San Diego company which had been developing a non-invasive test for Down’s Syndrome is in hot water after admitting that some...