Progress for gene therapy
Hopes for gene therapy rewarded by recent studies After years in the wilderness, gene therapy may be about to make a comeback. In an editorial...
Why not criticise Israeli doctors, asks WMA critic
Feud between Blachar and Summerfield The World Medical Association recently called on Iran to respect the International Code of Medical Ethics after hearing reports of...
Disabled boy in UK to be allowed to die
Father withdraws opposition to Baby RB's death Last week BioEdge reported that a UK hospital had asked the High Court if it could allow a...
Australian police raid euthanasia activists
More about the peaceful pill Australian police have raided the Melbourne headquarters of Exit International, the euthanasia organisation headed by Dr Philip Nitschke. They were...
British scientists try again to sell hybrid embryos to a sceptical public
Now by the Academy of Medical Sciences After a great kerfuffle last year, UK parliament authorised scientists to create hybrid animal-human embyros under licence. However,...
India cracks down on sex-selection
Two sentenced in Mumbai India is showing some signs of cracking down on sex-selection tests which allow women to abort baby girls. Two doctors have...
Mexican doctors in baby-stealing ring
Baby costs US$1,140 Three doctors, a nurse and a receptionist at a private hospital in Mexico City have been arrested for allegedly selling newborn babies...
Bioethicist in Hollywood
Inspirational bio-pic about bioethicist. Well, here’s something I never heard of before: an inspirational bio-pic about a bioethicist. Gifted Hands is a 90-minute film about...
British mother asks court to turn off her infant’s machine
Dispute with father"Amicably separated" parents in Britain are at loggerheads over whether to let their disabled 13-month-old son die. RB, as the boy is called...
Aborted foetus cells used to make beauty cream
Cosmetics company incites ethical debateA San Francisco cosmetics company, Neocutis, has admitted that it used cells from an aborted male foetus as an ingredient in a beauty...
My genes made me do it, says Italian murderer
But some scientists are scepticalAn Italian of Algerian descent who stabbed a man to death in 2007 has had his sentence reduced because he has...
Genetic tests used to prove nationality in UK
Protests from scientistsBritish immigration officials want to use genetic tests to determine the nationality of asylum seekers, a move which scientists have criticised as "fundamentally...