DRUG SHORTAGE SLOWS BELGIAN EUTHANASIA
While doctors in the US worry about a shortage of flu vaccines in next winter, Belgian doctors are fretting about a shortage of a different...
Modern mummies draw crowds and criticism
The fiercely competitive industry of exhibiting skinless, mummified human bodies in grotesque poses at commercial exhibitions hit a speed bump last month. The Chinese government...
IN BRIEF: right to live; Iranian clones; research fraud in China
RIGHT TO LIVE CASE: A terminally-ill British man has lost his legal battle to ensure that he will receive nutrition and water when he is...
MAIL ORDER EMBRYOS
From Texas, the state where Michael Dell pioneered custom-built computers, come custom-built embryos. Commercialisation of the IVF process has achieved a new milestone with the...
PRESSURE MAINTAINED FOR AUSTRALIAN THERAPEUTIC CLONING
Australian supporters of therapeutic cloning are pressing for a conscience vote in Federal Parliament despite opposition from Prime Minister John Howard and some prominent colleagues....
CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION GROWS IN THE US
Conscientious objection is becoming more and more prominent in bioethical discussion, according to an article in the Washington Post. Growing religious fervour and the introduction...
NIP AND TUCK IN BRAZIL
Brazilian cosmetic surgeons have become world leaders in reducing the size of bellies and buttocks, says a report in the UK Guardian about the biannual...
IS THERE A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO EXPERIMENTAL DRUGS?
Doctors and drug companies in the US fear that the nation's elaborate system for trialing new drugs could break down if an unexpected court decision...
EXPLOITATION IN PAKISTAN
When they pick up a pair of surgical scissors, doctors may be supporting child labour in Pakistan, a British doctors claims in the British Medical...
IN BRIEF: Thailand; drug trial
THAILAND: Fertility tourism is booming in Thailand, with the cost of IVF a mere one-third of rates in Europe or the US. The largest clinic,...
KATRINA’S AFTERSHOCK — EUTHANASIA
The rumours about non-voluntary euthanasia in the chaotic conditions of Hurricane Katrina last year were all too true, the Attorney-General of Louisiana has claimed. A...
BUSH ATTACKED OVER EMBRYO DECISION
Supporters of embryonic stem cell research are regrouping after setbacks in the US and Australia. In the US, President George W. Bush has been lambasted...