DADS TO BE SUPERFLUOUS IN NEW UK LEGISLATION
British fathers are to be deemed redundant in the most radical shake-up of fertility laws in 16 years. The Blair Labour government is studying reforms...
AUSTRALIAN STEM CELLS ACCORD MAY FRACTURE
Australia may be moving towards a US model of embryo research regulation: a chequerboard of conflicting state and national laws. At last weekend's council of...
PRISONERS RETURN AS RESEARCH SUBJECTS
A major US government report has recommended that prisoners be allowed to participate in clinical trials. This is a practice that has been under a...
I’M 16 AND I CAN REFUSE TREATMENT IF I WANT TO”
In another tricky case of informed consent, a 16-year-old Virginia boy has refused to undergo a second round of chemotherapy for Hodgkin's disease. Starchild Abraham...
TEXAS “FUTILE CARE” LAW UNDER ATTACK AGAIN
Another weakness in Texas's futile care law has emerged in the case of a woman who suffered brain damage after her breathing tube became disconnected...
CURES FROM DANDRUFF?
Looking for new sources of multipotent stem cells? Try dandruff. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have found that hair follicles are...
HUMAN EGG TRADE HAS A HUMAN COST
The desire of older professional women to bear IVF children with donated eggs relies upon exploited women in Eastern Europe, the London Daily Mail claims....
IN BRIEF: India, Britain, US
Peasant misery: Overwhelmed by their struggle with the land, 35 farmers in the Indian state Maharashtra have written to the Indian president seeking euthanasia. A...
FALUN GONG MURDERED IN CHINA FOR THEIR ORGANS, CLAIMS CANADIAN REPORT
The Canadian government is planning to investigate allegations that Falun Gong members in Chinese prisons are being murdered and their organs sold to transplant patients....
LESSONS FROM KOREAN STEM CELL DEBACLE DEBATED
Disgraced Korean stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk has admitted that he ordered subordinates to falsify his cloning research. But he has insisted at his trial...
AFTER 19 YEARS IN DARKNESS, TERRY WOKE UP
Neurologists are thrilled at the chance to examine the brain of an American man who "woke up" after 19 unresponsive years in a state of...
SURROGACY BOOMING IN CALIFORNIA AND OREGON
Oregon and California are developing "business clusters for surrogacy" which attract clients from other American states and Canada and other countries because pregnancy for profit...