Doctors force-feeding Gitmo hunger strikers
The lobby group Physicians for Human Rights has criticised the participation of American doctors in force-feeding hunger strikers in Guantanamo Bay. The New York Times...
Have your babies before 35, say UK specialists
Delaying babies defies nature, according to IVF specialists writing in the British Medical Journal. "Women want to 'have it all,' but biology is unchanged; deferring...
German nurse charged with 29 nursing home deaths
In what could be the worst serial killing in Germany since World War II, a 26-year-old male nurse has been charged with killing 29 nursing...
First face transplant approaches
A dozen people with facial disfigurements have queued up to become the first person to receive a face transplant. Five men and seven women are...
Are plumper lips coming from the skin of Chinese prisoners?
Commodification of human life is not just about embryos, as gruesome allegations about Chinese beauty products illustrates. The Guardian (UK) claims that a Chinese cosmetics...
IN BRIEF: India; Susan Torres; parthenotes
India has decided to empower women by making the morning-after pill an over-the-counter drug and reducing its price with government subsidies. Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss...
Did hospital doctors euthanase their patients in Katrina chaos?
Staff doctors in a New Orleans hospital may have euthanased critically ill patients with massive doses of morphine in the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina....
Katrina reopens debate about goals of bioethics
Thousands of dead in filthy flood waters, threats of massive outbreaks of disease, hundreds of thousands of homeless, accusations of racism, and the catastrophic failure...
Kass resigns as chair of US bioethics council
leon R. Kass, the University of Chicago ethicist who was the brains behind the Bush administration's bioethics policy, has resigned as the chairman of the...
Mystery of stolen Ukrainian newborn children
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has demanded that Ukrainian authorities seriously investigate claims that newborn children are being stolen for adoptions...
Saut?ed stem cells, anyone?
Researchers in Europe and the US are testing the potential of adult stem cells not just for medicine but for food. According to the news...
Using human embryos to test drugs will save animal lives
The Scottish scientist who created Dolly the sheep, the world's first cloned mammal, Ian Wilmut, says that using embryonic stem cells to test drugs is...