TAIWANESE DEVOTION
A Taiwanese couple in their 80s who have been caring for their blind and paralyzed daughter for 53 years have insisted that they would never...
HWANG’S MAMMOTH EXPENSES
With a nuclear-armed maniac rattling his missiles only a few miles away, South Koreans are no longer as focused on their stem cell debacle as...
ANIMAL RIGHTS AND THE HOLOCAUST
Efforts of radical animal rights activists to assert a moral equivalence between the slaughter of animals and the Jewish Holocaust continue. The book Eternal Treblinka,...
OREGON CHANGES NAME OF “PHYSICIAN ASSISTED SUICIDE”
Just as cloning has been rebadged as Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer to shake off its negative connotations, Oregon has decided to rename physician assisted suicide"....
IN BRIEF: Kass, Singapore, custody, euthanasia
Kass: Just in time for Halloween Dr Leon Kass, the former chairman of the US President's Council on Bioethics, has been nominated as one of...
STEM CELL TUMOURS: THE THREAT IS REAL
Although only this month renowned stem cell expert Alan Trounson, of Monash University in Melbourne, told the media that transplanted embryonic stem cells do not...
NONETHELESS, SIGNS OF PROGRESS
Despite the discouraging news from New York this week, there have been some small advances towards clinical applications of embryonic stem cells. Novacell, a small...
SUICIDE RISK WITH COSMETIC SURGERY
Ethical storm clouds hover over cosmetic surgery at the best of times. Is it consistent with a doctor's ethic of healing to turn his skills...
METHUSELAH MUMS OK, SAYS UNIVERSITY STUDY
Are quality mothers younger or just more dedicated? Researchers from the University of Southern California say that age is no bar to being a perfectly...
SPENDING IN MISSOURI CLONING CAMPAIGN SHATTERS RECORDS
Are backers of therapeutic cloning buying support in Missouri? An article in the St Louis Post-Dispatch has analysed the spending in a vigorous campaign for...
DROPPING THE WORD “CLONING”
The word "cloning" gives the public bad vibes, say biologists who support cloning of the therapeutic variety. They are trying to substitute the clumsier technical...
AMERICA’S CELEBRITY BIOETHICIST, ARTHUR CAPLAN
Let's say you're an American journalist whose editor has just tossed you a controversial medical story. Whom to ring? The first name in your rolodex...