The American Medical Association has decried the participation of doctors in executions as a clear violation of medical ethics. Nonetheless, since all 38 states with...

More details about the golden years of disgraced stem cell researcher Hwang Woo-suk have emerged in a book by a Korean journalist. Lee Sung-joo, of...

Bioethics conference: Conservative and liberal bioethicists will hash out their differences at a July conference in Albany, New York. The Future of Bioethics in a...

 A drug trial run by an American research company for a German biotech has left six young men seriously ill in London, two of them...

A British couple have won a reprieve for their severely handicapped son after his hospital asked to let him die because of his poor quality...

 Two more American women have died after taking the abortion pill RU- 486, the Food and Drug Administration has announced. It issued an alert warning...

Are Nazi ideas re-emerging in Europe? Despite furious protests from the Dutch government, an Italian minister has dug in his heels and refuses to apologise for...

Parents in Ohio can now sue doctors whose misdiagnosis leads to the birth of a disabled child whom they would otherwise have aborted. A 4-3...

Finding private funding for stem cell treatments is getting no easier, according to reports in the financial magazines Red Herring and Forbes. "I would say...

After a blast of criticism following reports in the British press that he was not the main figure in cloning Dolly the sheep, Professor Ian...

Hwang-gate: Hwang Woo-suk, the disgraced Korea stem cell researcher, has been fired from his post at Seoul National University. Six of his colleagues were also...

 Cloning researchers seem to have a knack for coming up with embarrassing surprises. First the South Korean government ended up with egg on its face...