Hospitals and medical personnel targeted in Syrian conflict
Civilian medical care for is being targeted in Syria’s civil war.Dar Al-Shifa hospital in Aleppo Civilian medical care for is being targeted in Syria’s civil...
Stephen Hawking endorses assisted suicide
After 50 years of enduring motor neuron disease, physicist Stephen Hawking, 71, has endorsed assisted suicide -- for other people. After 50 years of enduring motor...
More Australians making use of international surrogacy services
The number of Australians using commercial surrogacy in India has grown dramatically over the past five years. In an interview this week the founder of...
Ban boxing, says neuroscientist
One of Britain’s leading neuroscientists, John Hardy, of University College London, has used the magazine New Scientist to call for a ban on boxing. One...
Grave concern about the safety of new IVF procedure
A paper published this week in the journal Science questioned the safety an IVF procedure designed to prevent mitochondrial diseases in children. A paper published...
The coming battle over brain scans in the courtroom
The possibility of reading minds with brain scans is creating fierce controversy among legal scholarsThe possibility of reading minds with brain scans is creating fierce...
Scientists overcome roadblock to therapeutic use of stem-cells
Israeli researchers have made a major breakthrough in the search for an efficient method of producing induced pluripotent stem cells. Israeli researchers have made a...
Stephen Hawking and assisted suicide
Stephen Hawking is in the news this week (see article below). A documentary has just been released on the life of the 71-year-old cosmologist timed...