The soundness of advanced care directives has been undermined by two recent studies in the Archives of Internal Medicine. One research team found that the...

Control over human biology will be one of the main challenges to liberal democracy in the post-Cold War work, according to American social commentator Francis...

Hundreds of Britons with multiple sclerosis and other neurological diseases are said to be queuing up for treatment in Ireland with a shady company touting...

A UK prisoner serving life for murder has failed in his latest attempt to get access to IVF treatment. Kirk Dickson, 34, married Lorraine in...

Although US President George Bush denounced human-animal hybrids as an "egregious abuse" in this year's State of the Union address, along with human cloning, pressure...

To avoid experimenting upon animals, German researchers want to use mouse stem cells when they examine whether drugs are toxic for unborn humans. These tests...

An autopsy has revealed that a 19-year-old Down Syndrome woman who died following a late-term abortion at a leading late-term abortion clinic was stripped of...

One of the best-documented critiques of cloning human embryos has appeared in the latest issue of the Journal of Medical Ethics. In an article entitled...

The growing awareness of bioethics has given rise to institutional review boards which oversee and regulate federally funded research in the US. But often scientists...

Drug manufacturers are placing salesmanship before science, according to critics cited in Wired magazine. "The dominance of marketing over research has done real damage to...

A 83-year-old Texas man dying of cancer who had nursed his partially paralysed wife for 13 years has been charged with her murder. Doctors say...