Making compulsory euthanasia look good
Hi there, Way down at the bottom of the newsletter is a brief article from Australia. It’s a YouTube clip from “The Gruen Transfer”, a...
Is posthumous conception enough to make you a parent?
No, says Social Security Agency in Utah Should a child born three years after his father’s death be eligible for survivor Social Security benefits? This...
UK fertility watchdog to disappear in “bonfire of the quangos”
Will lobbyists be able to save it? Britain’s fertility watchdog, the Human Fertlitsation and Embryology Authority, is to be abolished as part of a cost-cutting...
Positives can outweigh negatives for new parents of Down syndrome children
US researchers find that doctors can be hostile The tumultuous feelings parents have when they first learn their child will be born with Down syndrome...
Helping judges understand neuroscience
Useful manual for lawyers The Law and Neuroscience Project, a clearinghouse for a dialogue between law and brain scientists, has published A Judge's Guide to...
Top IVF doctor defends helping parents pick babies’ sex
Sex selection superdoc A US pioneer of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) has defended sex selection, saying that it is “not playing God”, but rather is...
World Medical Association still burdened with corrupt president-elect
Ketan Desai in New Delhi jail A deadline approaches for the World Medical Association. It holds its annual general assembly in Vancouver from October 13...
US pets get better shot at treatment than people
Stem cells for dogs? America’s pets receive better medical treatment than many Americans do, according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to...
IVF babies may have slightly higher cancer rates: study
IVF may cause illness later in life One of the initial concerns about in vitro fertilisation when it was first devised over 30 years ago...
Sniff detector” could allow locked-in patients to communicate by breathing
Sniffs are a “good, fast trigger” Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, are testing a “sniff detector” that picks up pressure...