American women become surrogates for foreign couples
Is hardship because of the GFC? Or an entrepreneurial spirit? Or a sympathetic legal system? Whatever it is, Illinois women have discovered surrogate motherhood for...
UK mother asks for daughter’s life support to be withdrawn
Should food and water be removed from unresponsive patients? The cases in the newspapers nearly always feature dramatic conflicts between a flint-hearted medical bureaucracy wanting...
Expert urges caution before “jumping on euthanasia bandwagon”
Bioethics expert Megan-Jane Johnstone, of Deakin University, has said there are reasonable concerns why health advocacy organisations should not take a definitive position on euthanasia....
Swedish doctor charged with mercy killing
A Swedish paediatrician originally cleared in the 2008 mercy killing of a terminally ill infant will face charges of manslaughter, according to prosecutors in Sweden....
Duty calls for pole dancer employed by Bin Laden’s grandson
Another dispatch from the front lines of assisted reproduction: a British former pole dancer who miscarried Osama bin Laden’s twin grandchildren last year is pregnant...
Couple ordered to pay surrogate £568 per month for baby they’ll never see
Following up on a BioEdge story from February, a UK couple who lost their baby daughter to a surrogate mother have been ordered to pay...
UK commission calls for more widely available preconception genetic testing
The UK government’s advisory body on human genetics has recommended that preconception genetic testing for genetic diseases should be made more available in screening programs....
Mouse stem cells used to form a retina
A retina engineered in the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Japan could lead to treatments for human eye diseases, including some forms of blindness....