Male pregnancy a real possibility
If uterus transplants are possible, why can't transgender women get them? The idea of male pregnancy was once reserved for comedy (remember the pregnant Arnold...
Surrogacy comes to Vietnam
But only for married couples. Vietnam's Deputy Minister of Health cradles the country's first surrogate baby at a hospital in Hanoi As Thailand closes...
Embryo custody battles on the rise
Right-to-life campaigners have found a new cause. In recent years more and more couples quarrelling over embryos from the sunnier days of their relationship have...
Catastrophic result in clinical trial in France
One man is brain dead and six others are in critical condition after a stage-one trial. One man has been pronounced brain dead and another...
How much treatment do heroin addicts deserve?
American heart surgeons refusing surgery to heroin addicts who present repeatedly with drug-induced heart valve infections. American heart surgeons are making the difficult decision not...
Another controversy over futile care in Texas
A hospital committee authorises discontinuation of life-sustaining treatment. Chris Dunn in hospital bed before Christmas Medical ethicists have clashed over the death of Chris...
Looking for a job in cancer research?
In his State of the Union address President Obama announced a cancer moonshot: an ambitious plan to cure cancer. "The same kind of concentrated effort...
UK on verge of editing genome of human embryos
Researchers want to study gene regulation by using surplus IVF embryos Scientists in the UK could begin genetically engineering human embryos as early as March,...
Canadian doctors should not be forced to refer for euthanasia, says association
Access is the responsibility of the community, not the physician, argues the Canadian Medical Association. Canadian doctors should not be forced to refer patients for...
UK think tank to investigate cosmetic procedure industry
Booming growth brings problems. A prominent bioethics think tank in the UK, the Nuffield Council for Bioethics, has launched a public inquiry into cosmetic procedure...
Is US medicine becoming an assembly line?
Boston physicians complain in NEJM that patients are being treated like cars. Frederick Taylor (1856-1915), one of the first management consultants, helped to make American...
British man has fathered 800 children
Simon Watson is aiming for 1000. Another chapter in the Wild West of reproductive technology: the British man who has fathered 800 children and hopes...