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Jews debate brain death transplants In the on-going debate over the ethics of removing organs from “brain dead” patients, the conservative view has scored a...

Nicole Kidman brings home a surrogate baby Congratulations, Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban! They have taken home a new baby, Faith Margaret, born on December...

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Scientific reductionism made, as you would expect, absurd   Scientists now know that there is a precise spot in the brain which disposes people to...

Hi there, The Swiss seem to be endlessly inventive, bioethically speaking. Their liberal legislation on assisted suicide has made it a small cottage industry. Not...

Government is resisting Activists are determined to haul Costa Rica before the Inter-American Court on Human Rights to force the Central American country to legalise...

Is this an agenda-setting event?Progressive as always, Swiss legislators are discussing the decriminalisation of incest. Apparently the argument is that there are only three or...

What about the precautionary principle? The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues today came under fire for not being sufficiently wary of synthetic...

Type 1 diabetes treatment uses cells grown in pigs A world-first type 1 diabetes treatment using insulin-producing cells grown in pigs has been approved for...

Prime Minister accused of links to traffickers   Was Kosovo’s recently re-elected Prime Minister involved in murdering Serb prisoners for their organs during the 1999...

Final Exit members and Huntington’s woman contest law A woman with Huntington’s disease and two members of the Final Exit Network have challenged Georgia’s “Offering...

Parents seek destruction of leftover samples A class action lawsuit has been filed against the Texas Department of State Health Services by parents whose newborn...