THE BABY BUSINESS UNVEILED
Reproductive technology is seldom viewed as a industry, but for better or worse, it is. Now a Harvard Business School professor has written a book...
FINANCING HWANGATE
Disgraced stem cell researcher Hwang Woo-suk has told Korean state auditors that he used some of his funding to grease the palm of local politicians....
HWANGATE TRICKLES DOWN INTO THE STATE OF THE UNION
One overlooked proposal in President Bush's State of the Union speech on January 31 centred on cloning: "I ask you to pass legislation to prohibit...
HUNDREDS MARCH IN UK TO SUPPORT ANIMAL RESEARCH
Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of Oxford on Sunday to march in support of a ?18 biomedical research laboratory. Work on the lab...
ASSISTED REPRODUCTION IN BRIEF
A 62-year-old woman who has had 3 husbands, 11 children, 20 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren has given birth to her 12th child with the help...
IN BRIEF: Roy Meadow; prostates
Roy Meadow -- A British specialist in cot death has won an appeal against a verdict of serious professional misconduct. Professor Sir Roy Meadow's testimony...
ETHICS DEBATE DELAYS CALIFORNIA EXECUTION
The execution of a California man convicted of rape, torture and murder 25 years ago has been delayed because of ethical scruples by two doctors...
HWANG’S AMERICAN COLLEAGUE SLAPPED ON WRIST
The American co-author of disgraced Korean stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk has been found innocent of research misconduct, but guilty of "research misbehaviour" after an...
IN THE WAKE OF THE HWANG DEBACLE
A new South Korean science and technology minister wants to give Hwang Woo-suk and his team a second chance. Kim Woo-sik says that the scientist...
BELGIAN EUTHANASIA RISING
Belgian doctors reported nearly 400 cases of euthanasia in 2005, up from about 200 after it was legalised in 2002. However, Wim Distelmans, of Brussels...
DETAILS EMERGE OF KATRINA’S MERCY KILLINGS
Rumours of patients in a hospital being euthanased in the chaotic days after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans are probably true, according to secret court...
BIOETHICIST SLAMS CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION
Amongst the paradoxes of contemporary bioethics are simultaneous appeals to individual conscience as the arbiter of murky moral issues and disdain for conscientious objection by...