UK WOMAN DENIED ACCESS TO FROZEN EMBRYOS
The fate of frozen embryos hit page one in Britain last week with a sobbing woman begging her former boyfriend to allow their 5-year-old IVF...
IRISH TUG-OF-WAR OVER MORE EMBRYOS
And across the Irish Sea in Dublin, a divorced couple is locked in a custody battle over embryos also created and frozen in 2001. A...
FORCE-FEEDING OF GITMO DETAINEES DENOUNCED
The force-feeding of Guantanamo Bay detainees has again come under attack by doctors. In a widely publicised letter in the British journal The Lancet, 263...
KOREAN GOVERNMENT USES IVF TO RAISE BIRTH RATE
Alarmed by a birth rate which is amongst the lowest in the world, the South Korean government has decided to turn to IVF. President Roh...
HWANG FIGHTS TO CLEAR HIS NAME
Disgraced Korean stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk is trying to clear his name by challenging the results of an investigation into his research by Seoul...
HANDS OFF OUR OVARIES”
Radical feminists and pro-life women have linked arms to create an unlikely coalition against egg harvesting for stem cell research. Hands off our ovaries" will...
BLOGGING BUG BITES
The blogging bug has bitten the bioethics community. The American Journal of Bioethics was the first to launch a blog. is run by Glenn McGee,...
STEM CELL RESEARCHERS PROPOSE INTERNATIONAL GUIDELINES
A group of 60 scientists, doctors, philosophers, lawyers, editors and others have put forward a proposal for international guidelines for stem cell research. "Inconsistent and...
GRONINGEN PROTOCOLS TO BE ADOPTED IN HOLLAND
The Netherlands will become the first country in the world to allow involuntary euthanasia of infants, the London Times reports. After several months of deliberation,...
CAMBODIA DEPORTS EUTHANASIA ACTIVIST
An American who was promoting Cambodia as a euthanasia resort has been deported. The government declared that 57-year-old Roger Graham was endangering the national interest....
PRESSURE FOR EUTHANASIA IN CHINA
A leading government official in China has called for the legalisation of euthanasia. "Conditions are not ripe yet for the nation-level legislation on euthanasia, but...
HWANG ADMITS DATA FABRICATION, SAY INVESTIGATORS
Korean stem cell expert Hwang Woo-suk has told prosecutors that he ordered the fabrication of data to support his claim to have created embryonic stem...