Iran slated by World Medical Association
WMA says prisoners are being mistreated The World Medical Association has urged national medical associations to support the rights of patients and physicians in Iran...
Pascal’s Wager taken out of deep freeze
UK ethicist defends cryonics What would the 17th century French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal think of cryogenics -- the business of freezing people until...
US 8 year old may undergo sex-change treatment
Gender dysphoric child will be administered medication to become female The American parents of a transgender child have enrolled their 8-year-old son in sex-change treatment...
Octomom’s fertility doctor expelled from professional body
ASRM says that he broke professional standards The Los Angeles doctor who treated "Octomom", Michael Kamrava, has been expelled from the American Society for Reproductive...
New embryo screening method could produce better babies
Big improvement over PGD, says head of British Fertility SocietyA new method of embryonic screening could double women’s chances of selecting an embryo with the...
Australian woman has 12 children with assisted reproduction
Controversy over government support for familyAn Australian woman who was the world’s first mother of two sets of quadruplets has given birth to twins. Dale...
Scrutinising “progressive” bioethics
New book from MIT Press On the coattails of a progressive US President, a number of “progressive” bioethicists have entered the Obama administration. What this...
California stem cell scientists team up with China
CIRM signs agreement The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) will be collaborating with the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) on stem cell...
More information needed about organ trafficking, says UN report
Report endorses "voluntary altruism" International regulation is needed to stop trafficking in human organs, tissues and cells, says a report to the United Nations and...
Poll “shows” Quebec specialists favour euthanasia
But do they know what it is? A poll released this week claims that three-quarters of medical specialists in Québec are in favour of euthanasia....
Poland may chemically castrate sex offenders
... if the bill survives legal challenges One of the world's best-known Poles, Roman Polanski, would be chemically castrated if he had been found guilty...
Massachusetts woman tries to crack sperm donor anonymity
Experts thinks she will not succeed A Massachusetts woman is trying desperately to identify the anonymous sperm donor father of her twin daughters who have...