In a major advance toward artificial organs, bladders grown from patients' own cells in the laboratory were implanted in seven children with spina bifida and...

 A fourth American state has voted help to fund embryonic stem cell research. The Maryland legislature has passed a bill authorising US$15 million in grants...

A trickle of conflicting information about a Japanese surgeon accused of the mercy killing of seven patients shows the importance of terminology in discussing euthanasia....

A year after the death of Terri Schiavo, the controversy over whether the brain-damaged woman should have died still rages, but in bookshops and talk...

German authorities are considering changes to how drug trials are conducted because of a disastrous outcome in London last month. Six British volunteers became violently...

Britain's first made-to-order baby clinic is to open in Nottingham within 3 months, the London Telegraph reports. The ?5 million facility will be able to...

Tbilisi, Georgia | Unregulated surrogacy has opened up market opportunities in Georgia, EurasiaNet reports. The Surrogate Motherhood Centre, a clinic supported by the Ministry of...

Japanese police are investigating a surgeon who has killed seven patients over the last five or six years by removing them from their respirators. The...

Two UK men have been discharged from hospital after collapsing during a drug trial earlier this month. Four others are still in Northwick Park Hospital,...

 In a rare example of Israeli and Palestinian cooperation, doctors on both sides of the border are analysing the high proportion of genetic diseases amongst...

German scientists have announced that stem cells from the testicles of mice may be as useful as embryonic stem cells. "If this turns out to...

No experimentation without consent is one of the few ethical principles which is universally accepted by bioethicists. But some exceptions are needed for studies of...