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Texas psychologist faces licence loss for designing torture regime
Techniques included sexual humiliation and waterboarding. A Texas psychologist could lose his licence for helping the Bush Administration design torture programs for terror suspects imprisoned...
Mercy killing is still murder, says British court
Tragic case of Francis Inglis A British woman found guilty of murdering her brain-damaged son has lost her appeal after the court ruled that mercy...
72 not out, and feeling broody
Romanian woman considers a second child A Romanian woman who was pipped as the world’s oldest mother by a 70-year-old Indian woman is considering giving...
Swiss controversy over cannabis farmer’s hunger strike
Should doctors force-feed him? Is it unethical to force-feed hunger strikers? Many ethicists regarded force-feeding of detainees at Guantanamo as tantamount to torture. But in...
New Philippines health chief sparks fears of return of kidney trade
Transplant industry could return Filipino Rommel Villanueva, 30, once had a spare healthy kidney. It is now gone, transplanted into a foreigner who paid US$60,000....
Seven charged in Kosovo organ-trafficking case
Illegal organ transplant hub caught At least seven people have been charged with participating in a Kosovo-based organ-trafficking ring that sold the kidneys and other...
South African hospital guilty of illegal kidney trading
More organ trading nightmares The largest private hospital group in South Africa has admitted to receiving 3.8 million rand (US$550,000) from an illegal organ trafficking...
UK woman may act as surrogate for gay brother
Woman will be mother and aunt of the same baby Reproductive technologies are leading to more and more complicated family relationships. Now an unnamed woman...
Foetal reduction essential for IVF, says specialist
Disciplinary hearing of Michael Kamrava The disciplinary hearing of the doctor who treated OctoMom, Nadya Suleman, gives some revealing insights into the way fertility specialists...
Turkey’s IVF “sperm scandal”
Even in Turkey, there have been problems with IVF treatment After a recent report in BioEdge about a tragic IVF blunder in Singapore, Professor Nüket...