“Ashley treatment” is ethical, says committee
Growth attenuation can be a solution for some children Should parents be able to restrict the growth of profoundly disabled children to make them easier...
Belgian court approves “wrongful life”
Abortion law assumes the concepts, it argues A Belgian Court of Appeal has confirmed that parents can sue for “wrongful life” on behalf of their...
Unauthorised tests could land execs in jail
Company did unauthorised tests of bone cement A Pennsylvania medical-device company has pleaded guilty over conducting unauthorized tests of its bone cement on about 200...
California ruling upholds police use of DNA from discarded cigarette
Privacy and public safety collide again Tension between privacy and public safety has flared, as a state appellate court in Sacramento, California, ruled that a...
Why do British go overseas for fertility treatments?
Most women travelling from the UK to other countries for infertility treatment do so because of long waiting lists and shortage of donor gametes at...
Microscopic barcodes for embryos could cut down errors
Minimising handling and implantation errors Researchers at the Autonomous University of Barcelona have devised a possible solution for embarrassing errors in the handling of embryos...
Spanish retirement home orderly admits killing 11
The suffering patients needed peaceAn orderly at a Spanish nursing home admitted Tuesday to killing 11 residents, reports say. Joan Vila, 45, confessed that he...
Did a French nurse euthanase patients?
No big deal for radio talk-back The audience of a talk-back radio show on France Inter had frissons d'horreur recently when a caller named Cécile,...
Assisted suicide fails in Scotland’s parliament
Defeated handily in ParliamentScotland’s Parliament has overwhelmingly defeated a bill which would have legalised assisted suicide for the terminally ill. The final result was 85...
ACT acting up again
Hi there, This week the FDA approved the second human clinical trial of embryonic stem cells. Advanced Cell Technology, one of the few companies which...
Obama calls for investigation into Guatamala STD study
Commission to report in September US President Barack Obama has asked his bioethics commission to report on an almost forgotten unethical study in Guatemala between...
Scientists creating “diseases in a dish” with induced pluripotent cells
But what about the controversy? After nearly 10 years of controversy, scientists seem little closer to achieving “miracle cures” with embryonic stem cells – although...