Final Exit Network members arrested
4 charged after death in GeorgiaFour leading members of the Final Exit Network (FEN), an assisted suicide organisation, have been arrested in the US state...
Obama moves to rescind conscience rule
Political storm brewingThe Obama administration is moving to rescind a controversial rule allowing health-care workers to refuse to do abortions or supply contraceptives. The rollback...
Washington opens doors to physician-assisted suicide
Follows November’s referendum "Death with dignity”, aka physician-assisted suicide, became legal in Washington state today. Nearly 60% of voters supported the radical change in a...
The birth of neuroethics
Staunchly agnostic or atheistMost histories of bioethics say that its origins are deeply religious. America’s best-known bioethics commentator, Arthur Caplan, recently told a seminar that...
The clone ranger rides again
Antinori claims that he has cloned three childrenOne of the original clone rangers is back in the saddle. Italian gynaecologist Severino Antinori claims that he...
Why the delay in Obama’s stem cell policy?
Frustrating lack of action Advocates of cures with human embryonic stem cells are restless because President Obama has not delivered on his promise to lift...
Were the sound and fury of the hybrid embryo debate pointless?
Therapeutic cloning’s star wanes A few months ago, in the teeth of ferocious opposition, the British parliament passed a law authorising the creation of human-animal...
Ethical and practical pluripotent stem cells even closer now
Only one transcription factor needed Scientists have come even closer to developing pluripotent stem cells without destroying embryos. An article in the journal Cell shows...
German court rules against helping suicides for money
Former justice minister charged clients 8,000 Euros A German court has found that assisted suicide for profit is not legal, thus ending a tidy little...
Britain closer to legal assisted suicide
Court formally denies Debbie Purdy’s request, but indicates that no prosecution likely Britain seems to edging closer towards a "don’t ask, don’t tell" policy on...
Few US IVF clinics follow guidelines
Desperate clients; desperate doctors From their remarks in the media, you might think that IVF doctors are outraged at a colleague who implanted 6 embryos...
What about those deadbeat sperm donor dads?
Where’s OctoDad? Where’s OctoDad, some observers of the mother-of-14-IVF-kids saga are asking. Apparently Nadya Suleman used a single sperm donor for all of her brood,...