The radical animal welfare group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has scored a big win in its campaign to stop animal testing of...

Glowing newspaper profiles of IVF doctors who bring bundles of joy to desperate couples are common enough in the US, the UK and Australia. But...

Despite the publicity given to Swiss suicide clinics, not all Swiss are happy with a law which allows foreigners to seek help in killing themselves....

 The fertility industry discriminates against sperm donors, says US sociologist Rene Almeling. Her article this month in the American Sociological Review describes striking inequities in...

Jack Kevorkian, the American doctor jailed after assisting with more 130 suicides, has been paroled from a Michigan jail. In an interview with the New...

International medical tourism has become a US$60 billion industry which is growing at the galloping pace of 20% a year. Patients in Europe and North...

Foetal reduction: A Florida woman on fertility treatment is pregnant with sextuplets. Karoline Byler and her husband Ben were shocked. But when doctors suggested foetal...

 One of the best-kept secrets of IVF is selective reduction -- killing one or more foetuses in the womb of a woman who is carrying...

 Evidence that morality is all in the brain keeps rolling in. The Washington Post recently highlighted research from the National Institutes of Health that appeared...

Adult stem cells have been used to deal with urinary incontinence, an increasingly common problem amongst older women. In the past, the problem had been...

The former head of China's Food and Drug Administration has been sentenced to death for taking US$850,000 in bribes and allowing tainted foodstuffs and medicines...

A new generation of abortion specialists is springing up in the US, according to the , energised by the plight of women who have to...