HWANG’S EGG COUNT RISES
The number of eggs used by disgraced Korean stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk keeps climbing. He originally claimed that he had used only 427 eggs...
NIGERIAN DIES IN QUEUE FOR HEART TRANSPLANT
The ethical dilemmas involved in allocating organs for transplants became painfully real in the UK after a Nigerian woman who had overstayed her visa died...
IN BRIEF: Dignitas; animal rights, mercy killing
Animal rights law: The host of the American TV show "The Price is Right" has donated US$1 million to Georgetown University Law School to expand...
BRITAIN’S OLDEST MUM A CHILD PSYCHIATRIST
The abolition of the UK's fertility regulatory authority has been suggested after a child psychiatrist announced that she was going to become Britain's oldest mother...
EXPLOITATIVE AND UNETHICAL” EGG TRADE BURGEONING
With the media buzzing about the fruit of Dr Rashbrook's old age (with the help of a Russian donor), recent articles are also claiming that...
LIFE LOOKS BETTER TOWARDS THE END
The soundness of advanced care directives has been undermined by two recent studies in the Archives of Internal Medicine. One research team found that the...
A BIOETHICS CHALLENGE AT THE END OF HISTORY
Control over human biology will be one of the main challenges to liberal democracy in the post-Cold War work, according to American social commentator Francis...
SHADY STEM CELL DOCTORS TO EVADE IRISH BAN BY USING FERRY
Hundreds of Britons with multiple sclerosis and other neurological diseases are said to be queuing up for treatment in Ireland with a shady company touting...
BRITISH KILLER FAILS TO GET IVF
A UK prisoner serving life for murder has failed in his latest attempt to get access to IVF treatment. Kirk Dickson, 34, married Lorraine in...
PRESSURE GROWING FOR CHIMERAS
Although US President George Bush denounced human-animal hybrids as an "egregious abuse" in this year's State of the Union address, along with human cloning, pressure...
STEM CELLS COULD BYPASS ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION
To avoid experimenting upon animals, German researchers want to use mouse stem cells when they examine whether drugs are toxic for unborn humans. These tests...
ABORTION CLINIC THRIFT
An autopsy has revealed that a 19-year-old Down Syndrome woman who died following a late-term abortion at a leading late-term abortion clinic was stripped of...