Organ donors need compensation, says UK bioethics think tank
Organ donors should have their funerals subsidised and women who donate their eggs for research should be paid, says an influential British bioethics think tank....
Nevada doctor charged in alleged stem cell case
A Nevada paediatrician has been charged with conspiring to implant chronically ill patients with stem cells collected from human placentas. A Nevada paediatrician has been...
Defending the rights of surrogate mothers in India
Commercial surrogacy is booming in India. Commercial surrogacy is booming in India. It has, so far, gone unregulated – but an assisted-reproduction technologies (ART) bill...
Trial opens for 7 Kosovars in organ-trafficking case
The trial of seven Kosovars accused of participating in an international organ trafficking ring opened recently. The trial of seven Kosovars accused of participating in...
Women as young as 18 seek Internet sperm donors
While IVF was initially intended for women whose biological clocks had run out or who could not conceive naturally, some young women are seeking sperm...
Sperm donors father colossal families in Canada, US
Experts are concerned about lax regulations on sperm donation in Canada and the US where some men have anonymously fathered dozens of children. Experts are...
Pop culture, wealthy Chinese drive booming medical tourism in Asia
It’s one of the fastest-growing industries in Asia. It’s one of the fastest-growing industries in Asia. Despite global economic woes, medical tourism is booming. Hospitals...
Interview: Art Caplan on boycotting Chinese organ transplants
In response to the “barbarous practice of obtaining organs from executed prisoners” in China, the prominent US bioethicist Arthur Caplan, together with other experts, proposed...
Are they all like Jeremy Bentham?
How appropriate, I’ve always thought, that the father of utilitarianism, Jeremy Bentham, was pickled and placed on display at University College London. Utilitarianism is a...
Boycott China, say bioethicists
Despite assurances that the practice is winding down, China persists in using organs from executed prisoners. In an editorial in The Lancet, several prominent bioethicists...
Life with Down syndrome overwhelmingly happy, says US study
The latest research on life with Down syndrome paints a very positive picture. In a major feature in the American Journal of Medical Genetics, Dr...
German ethicists can’t agree on humanized animals
The German Ethics Council (Deutscher Ethikrat) has recommended that researchers be allowed to insert human genes into mice in a major report on human-animal mixtures....