A Dutch politician has complained that his country's new government plans to create viable alternatives to abortion and euthanasia. The leader of the Liberal party,...

Canadian research indicates that babies conceived through IVF are more likely to have birth defects, confirming studies in Australia and the US. In the latest...

A possible new use has been discovered for an old epilepsy drug -- giving people with Down Syndrome new capacity for learning. An article in...

The New Jersey Supreme Court is considering a case which could shake up America's tortuous abortion debate. An article in Slate sketches the facts. Rose...

 February 22 marked the tenth anniversary of the cloning of Dolly. Back in 1997, Ian Wilmut and his colleagues at Roslin Institute near Edinburgh announced...

Record for prematurity: A Florida IVF baby born at 21 weeks and 6 days has been released from hospital. She is the first baby known...

 Switzerland's highest court has ruled that mentally ill people should be allowed to ask doctors to kill them. "It must be recognised that an incurable,...

 Shakespeare called it "self-slaughter". Oregon bureaucrats call it "participation in the Death with Dignity Act". It's tough finding a word to describe suicide which appeals...

The UK's fertility authority is expected later this week to give a green light for researchers to pay women ?250 for their eggs. Donors will...

At the same time, an article in the journal Thrombosis and Thrombolysis has warned of a possible increase in side effects of fertility drugs, including...

The descendants of the Aboriginal people of Australia's island state of Tasmania are used to dealing with museums. Their ancestors' bones are treated as a...