BioEdge

British children are being aborted in record numbers for relatively minor conditions, according to recent statistics, confirming fears that more and more parents want only...

Norwegian researchers say that there is a five-fold increase in risk of a dangerous complication of pregnancy in women who have conceived a child through...

Gay activist and accredited lifestyle coach Paul Van Reyk has been featured on Australian TV as a sort of stud for single women and lesbians....

KOREA: Despite the Hwang debacle, the South Korean government is still determined to ensure that it becomes one of the world's top three powerhouses in...

Canadian doctors are embracing cosmetic surgery and abandoning less lucrative fields, says the magazine Macleans. "In 15 minutes I can inject Botox and make three,...

Somewhere in the US is a sperm donor who has passed a deadly gene to five children born to four couples. Writing in the Journal...

A bill in the Spanish Parliament has given fresh heart to philosopher Peter Singer in his struggle to extend the basic rights of life, liberty...

 Slate's bioethics correspondent has made a scathing attack on this month's decision by the UK's fertility regulator to allow pre- implantation genetic diagnosis for flawed...

Whether clinical drug trials should be conducted in the developing world is a thorny and intractable issue, says Slate columnist Amanda Schaffer in MIT's Technology...

Thousands of couples are travelling to clinics in the US where they can choose the sex of their next child. Dr Jeffrey Steinberg, the leading...

A Canadian psychologist who brought a friend to an assisted suicide clinic in Zurich, where she killed herself, is being accused of serious professional misconduct....

The first man in the UK to have children without a female partner has just published a second edition of his book on raising triplets...