WHO OWNS YOUR PROSTATE BIOPSY?
A dispute between a doctor-researcher, some of his patients, and his former university about ownership of tissue samples has ended in a victory for the...
SOME STEM CELLS CURE, BUT OTHERS KILL
Not all stem cells work for the Jedi, scientists have learned. Some work for the Dark Side and cause cancer. In a conceptual revolution in...
NORTH CAROLINA DOCTORS LEND A HAND IN EXECUTION
The issue of American health professionals cooperating in legal executions has arisen again, this time in North Carolina. On April 21 61-year-old Willie Brown was...
CHILDREN OF DONOR EGGS AND SPERM SELDOM TOLD
A British study has found that most children conceived with donated eggs or sperm are not told about their origins, although most IVF children are....
HWANG SAGA DRAGS ON? IN THE US
The sorry saga of disgraced Korean stem cell researcher Hwang Woo- suk has an American sequel. Questions are still being raised about the work of...
KANSAS ABORTION DISPUTE
Abortion opponents in the midwest state of Kansas have invoked an obscure law to force an investigation into the death of a mentally- retarded woman...
IN BRIEF: organ sales, nurse killer, California
Organ sales: The British Transplantation Society claims that there is growing evidence that the organs of thousands of executed prisoners in China are being removed...
CONSENT FORM FOR DRUG TRIAL DISASTER FLAWED, SAY CRITICS
Although British authorities say that a drug trial which made six healthy young men violently ill was conducted properly, critics have savaged their informed consent...
POLITICAL BATTLE LOOMING OVER ETERNAL LIFE
Immortality beckons, says Ronald Bailey, science editor of Reason, an influential American libertarian magazine, and the partisans of mortality are powerless to stop it. Writing...
ECHOES OF HWANG IN POSSIBLE JAPANESE FRAUD
The leading journal Nature is getting abundant experience in dealing with scientific fraud nowadays. Hard on the heels of an investigation into the cloning research...
HWANG DEBACLE MUST NOT HINDER RESEARCH, SAYS SCIENTIST
The Hwang fraud must not hold back human embryonic stem cell research, insists a leading US researcher. Xiangzhong (Jerry) Yang, of the University of Connecticut,...
BELGIAN POLITICIANS WANT EUTHANASIA FOR KIDS
Euthanasia for children under 18 appears to be gaining support in Belgium. Two years ago, a bill was introduced to extend the country's recent euthanasia...