US legislators seek ban on chimp experiments
Three US senators have called for medical research on chimpanzees to be banned. The US is the last major industrialised country which still uses the...
“Baby Joseph” returns to Canada, breathing on his own
Joseph Maraachli, the boy whose family refused to accept a Canadian hospital’s recommendation to remove his breathing tube and allow him to die, is now...
Billboard promotes right to die
The US activist group Final Exit Network (FEN) has erected billboards all over the US to support the right to “Die With Dignity” – what...
Fearful elderly people carry “anti-euthanasia cards”, campaigner says
Elderly people in the Netherlands are so afraid of being killed by doctors that they carry cards saying they do not want euthanasia.Elderly people in...
Debate rages over circumcision in the US
While there has been heightening debate in recent years about the ethics of circumcision, the procedure has become less popular in the US and some...
Mental illness “in a dish”
Before he committed suicide at age 22, an anonymous man with schizophrenia donated a biopsy of his skin cells to research. Regrown as neurons, the...
Chinese women arrive as pregnant tourists, leave with American babies
California officials have closed a makeshift ward for Chinese “maternity tourists” who had paid tens of thousands of dollars to deliver their babies in the...
Woman who attempted suicide while pregnant is charged with murder
After her boyfriend betrayed her, Bei Bei Shuai, a 34-year-old pregnant Chinese immigrant living in Indianapolis, ate rat poison to end her misery. She survived,...
Zsa Zsa Gabor to be a mother again? At 94?
Hi there, Before I forget, there will be no BioEdge newsletter on the weekend of April 22-24, the Easter holiday, although we will post some...
“Dishonest” hype inflated stem cell hope, say bioethicists
It’s difficult to think of bioethicists who differ on more issues than Robert P. George, of Princeton and Arthur Caplan of the University of Pennsylvania....
US women join class-action lawsuit demanding more money for eggs
Thousands of women across the United States have joined a class-action suit demanding better compensation for egg donors. The case was lodged this week in...
American women become surrogates for foreign couples
Is hardship because of the GFC? Or an entrepreneurial spirit? Or a sympathetic legal system? Whatever it is, Illinois women have discovered surrogate motherhood for...