UK drug addicts bribed to be sterilized
American woman exports her scheme A North Carolina woman is trying to export to the UK her scheme to pay drug addicts to be sterilised....
Doctors competing to develop ultra low cost IVF
Alan Trounson working on new system Although IVF is now more than 30 years old and its inventor has won a Nobel Prize. But it...
Two bizarre IVF tales
Sperm from the dead and IVF from prison A New York woman has been granted permission to harvest sperm from her husband’s body after he...
Duty of care not owed to IVF children after mix-up
Ireland’s High Court hands case on to parliament Two children born with skin darker than their parents’ after an IVF mix-up were not owed a...
OctoMom’s doctor facing deregistration
Unsafe, says expert witness Beverly Hills fertility specialist Dr Michael Kamrava. The Medical Board of California is considering whether to deregister the IVF doctor who...
Surgery blunders surprisingly common: study
Mistakes “considerably higher” than previous estimates, researchers say Major errors by doctors and surgeons – such as removing organs from the wrong patient or amputating...
Bob Edwards and his Nobel gong
Hi there, This always happens. Go away on a holiday and the biggest story of the year breaks in your absence. Oh well. This time...
Only half of Belgium’s euthanasia cases are reported
However, Belgian academics wondered whether there might be abuses in unreported cases. There were. The law clearly stipulates that euthanasia is administering, supplying, or prescribing...
Is Geron’s embryonic stem cell trial the dawn of a new age?
Embryonic stem cells used for world-first treatment Doctors in the US have performed the world’s first treatment using embryonic stem cells, injecting the cells into...
Surrogate agrees to abort “defective” child
Canadian dispute When a Vancouver couple discovered that the child they had commissioned had Down syndrome, they urged their surrogate mother to abort it, a...
Doctors and nurses campaign for right to assist terminally ill in dying
Challenging medical bodies’ opposition to law changes Leading British doctors who support assisting the terminally ill to die launched an unprecedented campaign for change in...
My father was euthanased, says Michael Caine
At the actor's request Oscar-winning actor Sir Michael Caine has revealed that he arranged for his father to be euthanased in 1955. Sir Michael told...