Want to get plastinated? This is not an invitation to a boozy night out, but a novel way disposing of your mortal remains. Your body...

Barbara Walters's program 20/20 on the American ABC network is not famed for its nuanced presentations of complex topics. So its lurid coverage of transgender...

 General Electric Co has come under the spotlight in the Wall Street Journal for supplying Indian doctors with the ultrasound machines which enable sex-selective abortions....

 "A stampede of pharmacists" demanding the right not to provide the morning-after pill has prompted a call to rethink conscience in the latest Journal of...

 Two British couples plan to sift through IVF embryos and destroy those with a high risk of breast cancer. An application to test for the...

Although 37 American states use lethal injections to execute prisoners, they also expect the process to be relatively painless. But a controversial new study contends...

Because abortion is such a well-covered topic, we seldom report developments in BioEdge, despite the fact that it is a key bioethical issue. However, a...

Despite voluntary guidelines set in 2002 which limit freebies, nearly 95% of American doctors receive free food, beverages, drug samples, sports tickets or other benefits...

 A bill banning genetic discrimination has sailed through the House of Representatives by a vote of 420-3. The bill already passed the Senate unanimously in...

 It doesn't happen often, say the experts, but it does happen. A 47- year-old California man, John Foster, had a massive brain haemorrhage and was...

 One hundred years ago, back in 1907, the American state of Indiana passed the world's first compulsory sterilisation law. In 1909 the law was suspended...

A group of British IVF experts has announced that it is about to begin screening embryos for genes which predispose people for early- onset Alzheimer's....