More pragmatic than Bush's Council A political scientist and a materials engineer will lead the new Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. President...

Nebraskan university will abide by Obama’s federal stem cell research policies US battles over human embryo research have been fought in state legislatures and in...

Family Research Council videos You don't see many Youtube videos about cures from human embryonic stem cells nowadays. Many of the champions of hESCs have...

Longevity Summit convenes in California What is the world's most urgent problem? With most of us focused on mundane crises like global warming, or the...

Bioethcists Schuklenk and Blackford argue for atheismFrom a professional bioethicist’s point of view, one of the disturbing facts to emerge from the heated debate over...

Did State have authority to order a paternity test? A Connecticut fertility doctor has been accused of using his own sperm to impregnate a patient,...

Republicans warn that rationing has begun Almost no issue is more emotional than health and almost no health issue is more emotional than breast cancer....

Stanford research focuses on reasons for cognitive delays At the moment, 92% of pregnant women who are told that their child has Down syndrome choose...

The successful fertilisation of an egg using biological material from two women may have moved the world closer to three-parent babies. Researchers at St Mother...

Dutch organisation provides suicide tips on website The website of the Dutch Right-to-Die Association (NVVE) has launched a detailed information package on how to commit...

Cadaver maintenance programme A hospital in Chennai is marketing an innovative program for increasing the supply of organs – a "cadaver maintenance programme". Indians are...

Success of organ donation system doubtful The Chinese Government made efforts in August to curb organ trafficking by introducing a national organ donation system. But...