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Japanese police are investigating a surgeon who has killed seven patients over the last five or six years by removing them from their respirators. The...

Two UK men have been discharged from hospital after collapsing during a drug trial earlier this month. Four others are still in Northwick Park Hospital,...

 In a rare example of Israeli and Palestinian cooperation, doctors on both sides of the border are analysing the high proportion of genetic diseases amongst...

German scientists have announced that stem cells from the testicles of mice may be as useful as embryonic stem cells. "If this turns out to...

No experimentation without consent is one of the few ethical principles which is universally accepted by bioethicists. But some exceptions are needed for studies of...

The American Medical Association has decried the participation of doctors in executions as a clear violation of medical ethics. Nonetheless, since all 38 states with...

More details about the golden years of disgraced stem cell researcher Hwang Woo-suk have emerged in a book by a Korean journalist. Lee Sung-joo, of...

Bioethics conference: Conservative and liberal bioethicists will hash out their differences at a July conference in Albany, New York. The Future of Bioethics in a...

 A drug trial run by an American research company for a German biotech has left six young men seriously ill in London, two of them...

A British couple have won a reprieve for their severely handicapped son after his hospital asked to let him die because of his poor quality...

 Two more American women have died after taking the abortion pill RU- 486, the Food and Drug Administration has announced. It issued an alert warning...

Are Nazi ideas re-emerging in Europe? Despite furious protests from the Dutch government, an Italian minister has dug in his heels and refuses to apologise for...