Federal legislation is not the only barrier to the development of embryonic stem cell research in the United States -- there are also patents held...

 The fertility industry is usually treated as a monolithic industry pushing basically the same techniques and the same product, with some adventurous clinicians specialising in...

Should families own genetic information? Should patients pass on potentially important information to relatives? Should doctors withhold genetic information which could be useful in giving...

A lucrative product in reproductive medicine is embryo screening, especially for women over 35. A single cell is removed from an embryo and checked for...

Switzerland has acquired a reputation for "suicide tourism", as it allows foreigners to take advantage of its liberal laws on assisted suicide. Every year about...

The permutations of family relationships created by IVF seem endless. The latest twist comes with a Montreal woman's decision to freeze 21 of her eggs...

 American patients want their doctor to shake their hand as a sign of respect and trust. According to a survey in the Archives of Internal...

Doctors. Death. Netherlands. Normally these words in the world press mean a story about euthanasia. This time, however, the news relates to shonky alternative therapies....

Therapeutic cloning will put vulnerable women in poorly regulated countries at risk of medical and financial exploitation, says an Australian sociologist. Assoc Professor Catherine Waldby,...

Infant euthanasia in UK: Britain's General Medical Council is inquiring whether a doctor acted properly in treating a desperately ill premature baby with a dose...

 Bungled car bombs in London and Glasgow on the weekend may have been organised by doctors. "We have to face the possibility that the health...

 Israeli doctors have successfully frozen eggs from cancer-stricken girls as young as five in order to allow them to become mothers in later life. Dr...