Organ trading: After a three year investigation, two California men have been charged with conspiracy and grand theft for stealing body parts from UCLA's cadaver...

 The image of organ donation in Singapore has been tarnished after a hospital used security guards to restrain weeping relatives while it whisked away a...

Organ donation can go pear-shaped in the US, too, as the recently. According to a report obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, early last...

 As American baby boomers move into their 60s, many are taking out "bioinsurance policies" in the form of frozen stem cell samples. It is being...

Writing in the , Peter Singer, doyen of utilitarian bioethicists, recently supported the so-called "Ashley treatment" for a severely retarded girl. In that widely discussed...

Like an exotic species in a foreign environment, ethics panels designed to monitor biomedical experiments have invaded and overrun the humanities in the US. The...

Back in September, British researchers startled the neuroscience world when they reported in Science that a severely brain-damaged and apparently unresponsive patient had responded to...

A letter in Nature has called upon scientists to distinguish between science and ethics. David Campbell, of the University of Alabama, was commenting on a...

 A series of harrowing articles in the has highlighted the role of doctors and medical technology companies in India's increasingly skewed sex ratio. The journalist,...

 Never a dull moment in the UK for bioethicists! In the first of two significant developments, the country's fertility regulator has decided to allow women...

While compensation for egg donation is hotly debated in the UK, it has become common in the US. According to guidelines from the American Society...

 An important paper which claimed that a type of adult stem cell was as versatile as embryonic stem cells now appears to be flawed. In...