Iran slated by World Medical Association
WMA says prisoners are being mistreated The World Medical Association has urged national medical associations to support the rights of patients and physicians in Iran...
Pascal’s Wager taken out of deep freeze
UK ethicist defends cryonics What would the 17th century French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal think of cryogenics -- the business of freezing people until...
US 8 year old may undergo sex-change treatment
Gender dysphoric child will be administered medication to become female The American parents of a transgender child have enrolled their 8-year-old son in sex-change treatment...
Octomom’s fertility doctor expelled from professional body
ASRM says that he broke professional standards The Los Angeles doctor who treated "Octomom", Michael Kamrava, has been expelled from the American Society for Reproductive...
New embryo screening method could produce better babies
Big improvement over PGD, says head of British Fertility SocietyA new method of embryonic screening could double women’s chances of selecting an embryo with the...
Australian woman has 12 children with assisted reproduction
Controversy over government support for familyAn Australian woman who was the world’s first mother of two sets of quadruplets has given birth to twins. Dale...
Journal retracts controversial paper about artificial sperm
Allegations of plagiarism The journal which published a startling paper claiming to have derived sperm cells from human embryonic stem cells has taken the radical...
House of Lords asks government for clarity on Swiss suicide trips
Debbie Purdy scores a small victory in long legal battle A woman wheelchair-bound by severe multiple sclerosis has succeeded in forcing the UK government to...
PGD could cause long-term problems
PGD mice have poorer memories Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is offered by many IVF clinics to guarantee a healthy baby or a baby of the...
Foetuses can remember
Research by Dutch scientists Dutch scientists have discovered that 30-week foetuses have memories. A study in the July/August 2009 issue of the journal Child Development...
Adult stem cells quietly surging ahead
Embryonic stem cells said to be "gold standard", but hampered by fears of tumours Only a year ago, the stem cell wars were cemented into...
UK woman defies doctors to give birth to Siamese twins
Says babies are hers and are precious An English woman has defied advice from doctors and plans to give birth soon to conjoined (Siamese) twins....