Collateral damage from Down Syndrome terminations
For every 660 Down Syndrome abortions, 400 normal children are miscarriedThe risk of terminating healthy babies after a positive test for Down Syndrome is far...
Conscientious objection safe in Ontario
Conscientious objection safe in Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons retreats from earlier position The regulatory body for doctors in the Canadian province of Ontario...
Infidelity not of our own volition?
Dubious news of an infidelity gene More adventures in the "My genes made me do it" department, this time, marital infidelity. Researchers at the Karolinska...
Are some US doctors ignoring anti-interrogation advice from colleagues?
NEJM article claims that doctors are still involvedUS Army psychiatrists may be participating in the interrogation of detainees in the war-on-terror, ignoring recommendations to the...
Australia’s flagship stem cell centre in disarray
Conflict between research and commercialisation Australia’s flagship stem cell research centre is in danger of complete disintegration. Several weeks ago CEO Stephen Livesey was sacked...
Teeth stem cells could heal strokes
News from Adelaide Meanwhile, in a more positive development for Australian stem cell research, a University of Adelaide researcher says that teeth can help to...
McCain’s ambiguous position on stem cell research
Obama is clearly in favour, but McCain’s supporters opposeStem cell research is flying under the radar in this year's election. Both candidates support it but...
Is Sarah Palin a moral snob?
Doctors criticise her bad example of not having an abortionAbout 90% of American mothers bearing Down syndrome children abort them because, doctors say, their mothers...
India uses controversial brain scan to convict murderer
Reaction from American experts ranges from scepticism to outrageIndian courts are accepting brain scans as evidence in criminal trials, even though the technique has not...
Conscientious objection to abortion questioned in Australia
Victorian Parliament considering decriminalisation billThe right to conscientious objection to abortion is under threat in the Australian state of Victoria. The lower house of the...
59-year-old woman has triplets in France
New world recordWomen past the age of fertility are banned from IVF treatment in France. However, a 59-year-old woman of Vietnamese origin has given birth...
Coverage of IVF becoming more favourable in British press
"Children" give way to "embryos"Reporting of assisted reproduction issues in the British press has improved since the first IVF baby, Louise Brown, was born in...