Next year, says Geron, embryonic stem cell trials will begin. We hope
Critics jeer onOne of the most convincing advocates of human embryonic stem cell research, quadriplegic actor Christopher Reeves, died without seeing any substantial progress towards...
Swiss to curb suicide clinics
Bill to be presented in March Swiss suicide clinics are facing a crackdown. Justice Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf says either the clinics will have to accept...
Medical researcher debarment too slow, says US agency
US government watchdog calls for faster debarment of offending doctors US medical researchers who are to be debarred have been allowed to practise for up...
Legal sparring over privacy in Oklahoma abortion laws
Information posted on Health Department website A legal battle has arisen in Oklahoma over stringent new state abortion laws set to be passed at the...
Korean stem cell fraud given suspended sentence
Crowd cheers, “We trust Dr Hwang! Cheer up, Dr Hwang!” Disgraced South Korean stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk has escaped jail after being convicted of...
Hwang’s therapeutic cloning may be outmoded
iPS cell progress may have made it irrelevant So where is human embryonic stem cell research now, 4 years after Hwang Woo-suk was exposed as...
Lid kept on UK Down syndrome kids with prenatal testing
New BMJ study A study in the BMJ has confirmed that more effective prenatal screening has contained the growth in the number of Down syndrome...
Abolish dead donor rule for executions and euthanasia, say bioethicists
Even more radical proposal Abolishing the dead donor rule -- that vital organs should only be taken from dead patients --is one of the radical...
Israeli Knesset extends moratorium on human cloning
Government seeks another 5 years, gets 7 The Israeli Knesset has once again declined to ban human reproductive cloning. Instead it has extended a moratorium...
Tasmanian parliamentary report rejects euthanasia
Report available on internet Voluntary euthanasia will probably be rejected once again in the Australian state of Tasmania. In May the leader of the Green...
Top US bioethicists clash
Ezechiel Emanuel criticised by Arthur Caplan Back in August, the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) took the unusual step of publicly denouncing the...
German doctor on trial for killing 13 patients in 2003
She denies the deaths were murder A German doctor accused of the manslaughter of 13 patients has tearfully rejected the charges in her second trial....