Bioethics commission rules Guatemalan STD research unethical
US researchers violated ethical boundaries when they deliberately infected Guatemalan prisoners, mental health patients and prostitutes with sexually transmitted diseases in a 1940s research project,...
Patients given HIV-infected organs
One of Taiwan’s best hospitals has admitted that organs infected with HIV were mistakenly transplanted into 5 patients after a hospital worker misheard the donor’s...
Egg freezing blurs “experimental” label
For many women, freezing eggs is an uncertain business. Few women who have frozen their eggs a race against the clock have tried to use...
Steep cost for a baby
Over the six years she was treated at a private fertility clinic, Colleen Aitken had her husband’s specially prepared sperm inserted directly into her uterus...
Presidential contender had experimental stem cell treatment
Texas Governor Rick Perry opposes embryonic stem cell research. The Republican presidential candidate has, however, shown an open mind toward treatments developed using adult stem...
California couple sue IVF doctor over ‘lost’ embryos
Alex Walterspiel and Melanie Waters, a married couple in their 30s, conceived their 3-year-old son through IVF and hoped to have a second pregnancy using...
“Fixed” – new documentary on transhumanism and disability
Filmmaker Regan Brashear recently screened a rough cut of “Fixed: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement”. Filmmaker Regan Brashear recently screened a rough cut of “Fixed:...
Chinese surrogates relocate to US
A Californian lawyer is facing jail for brokering 12 illegal surrogacies. But this is small change for Lu Jinfeng, a Chinese man who claims that...
China to crack down on illegal transplants
China’s Ministry of Health will crack down on illegal human organ harvesting and transplants, a statement on the ministry’s website said last week. China’s Ministry...
New test reveals fetus’ sex as early as 7 weeks
A new, highly accurate, blood test can determine a baby’s sex as early as 7 weeks into the pregnancy.A new, highly accurate, blood test can...
Swiss hospital pioneers prenatal surgery
Doctors at Zurich University Children’s Hospital have performed surgery on fetuses still inside their mothers’ wombs. Doctors at Zurich University Children’s Hospital have performed surgery...
Scientists credited on ghostwritten research “should be charged with fraud”
Doctors and scientists who add their names to medical articles they have not written should be charged with professional misconduct and fraud, Canadian legal experts...