Save the planet: tax babies
Australian academics propose levy on newbornsTwo Australian medical academics made world headlines this week by endorsing a Chinese model of population control to reduce the...
Childless to protect the planet
British woman says children add to pollution and greenhouse gasesThe notion that children are a form of pollution has true believers outside Australia. London's Daily...
Hospital faces closure over Catholic principles
London hospital could be closed over abortion and sterilization A Catholic hospital, renowned as the "poshest place to push" in Britain, faces an uncertain future...
Dignitas finds new home in Zurich
Assisted suicide group settles into old bowling ball factoryAfter being ostracised by neighbours and municipalities, the Swiss assisted suicide group Dignitas has found a home...
Scrap Hippocratic Oath, say Italian doctors
Ancient oath bans abortion and euthanasiaSome senior Italian doctors have called for the Hippocratic Oath, which all doctors take at the beginning of their career,...
Updated oaths breached, too
Study finds that doctors often breach codes of medical professionalismA few years ago, in an attempt to update the Hippocratic Oath to reflect dilemmas about...
Media spellbound by brain scans
Make presidential candidates' scans public, says neuropsychiatrist The notion that Brains-R-Us is gaining more ground in the media. Neuropsychiatrist Daniel G. Amen, writing in the...
Two-track research needed, say stem cell scientists
Embryo research is still essential for progress The stunning advance last month which may make human embryonic stem cells (ESCs) unnecessary for cures for dread...
Thank you for waiting; your cures have been placed in a queue…
At least a decade away, says Ian Wilmut To dampen expectations by a public hunger for cures, scientists have been falling over each other to...
Further reprogramming progress
Yamanaka gets rid of cancer gene In a matter of weeks, the Japanese researcher who discovered how to reprogram cells, Shinya Yamanaka, has published yet...
Are embryos persons? Colorado voters to decide
Objections from bioethicists about legal rights for the unborn Colorado voters could decide next year that an embryo is a human person from the moment...
East German doctors spied for regime
One in 20 doctors informed on colleagues and patients German doctors have had two encounters with totalitarianism in the 20th century -- and emerged with...