The 2005 figures for legal euthanasia in the Netherlands show a slight increase on the previous year. The Regional Oversight Boards for Euthanasia says that...

Although the work of Korean stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk has been exposed as a fraud, at least seven groups around the world are attempting...

Procedures for clinical trials must be revised to protect the public and restore public faith in medicine, says the director of the US National Institutes...

IVF for Israeli assassin: The Israeli High Court of Justice has issued an injunction to prevent the killer of former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin from...

BioEdge celebrates its 200th anniversary today. We launched the newsletter at a propitious time -- in August 2001, the week after US President George Bush...

A preliminary investigation into the UK drug trial which made six healthy young volunteers critically ill has blamed the drug, not the trial design or...

Many diseases and syndromes are better known by the name of the doctor who first described them. Take Reiter's syndrome, for example, a disorder that...

 A dispute between a doctor-researcher, some of his patients, and his former university about ownership of tissue samples has ended in a victory for the...

Not all stem cells work for the Jedi, scientists have learned. Some work for the Dark Side and cause cancer. In a conceptual revolution in...

The issue of American health professionals cooperating in legal executions has arisen again, this time in North Carolina. On April 21 61-year-old Willie Brown was...

A British study has found that most children conceived with donated eggs or sperm are not told about their origins, although most IVF children are....

The sorry saga of disgraced Korean stem cell researcher Hwang Woo- suk has an American sequel. Questions are still being raised about the work of...