IVF ON THE CHEAP — IF YOU GIVE YOUR EGGS FOR CLONING
Britain's Medical Research Council has agreed to fund half of women's IVF bills, provided that they donate half of their eggs for cloning research. This...
VATICAN SUPPORTS FOOD AND WATER
FOR UNCONSCIOUS PATIENTS
It is wrong to stop administering food and water to patients in a vegetative state, even if they never regain consciousness, says the Vatican. A...
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT BACKS HALT TO APE EXPERIMENTS
A large majority of members of the European Parliament have called for an end to experimentation on great apes. Their resolution is not legally binding,...
DOUBTS ON CYBRIDS SURFACE
Now that hybrid embryos have effectively been legalised in the UK, doubts about whether they are possible have surfaced in the media. The UK's fertility...
AGGRESSIVE PITCH FOR ORGAN DONATION GIVES SHIVERS IN US
A growing shortage of organs for transplant in the United States has prompted allegations that attempts to get organs from dying patients are too aggressive....
BRITONS CHEERY ABOUT ORGAN DONATION
Britons have a positive attitude towards organ donation, but few translate their good intentions into deeds. In a recent survey conducted for the Human Tissue...
US DOCTOR BACKS PARTICIPATION IN EXECUTIONS
Capital punishment was not always on the list of activities proscribed by the medical profession. It was a doctor, Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, who proposed a technologically...
LIBERALS ARE SMARTER, SAY NEUROSCIENTISTS
In the on-going search for neurological explanations of all human behaviour, researchers have found that liberals are smarter than conservatives, at least in the US....
Surrogate mum heads for double digits
Britain's surrogacy champ is undoubtedly Ms Carole Horlock, who is eight weeks into a pregnancy which will make her the mother of 12 children of...
IS YOUR TOASTER A MORAL AGENT?
While the rest of us are still taking baby steps towards the solution of bioethical conundrums involving unborn people, sick people and dying people, more...
UK CLINICS TO OFFER EGG FREEZING
Two of Britain's leading fertility clinics are to offer egg freezing so that women can delay having children until well into their 40s. Until recently,...
US IVF CLINICS MAY BE OVER-SERVICING
American IVF clinics may be overusing a technique for fertilising patients' eggs to create embryos, costing couples and some insurers hundreds of extra dollars. ,...