A Belgian surgeon who has admitted euthanasing several patients illegally in her own country is being questioned over the death of a 74-year-old patient in...

As many as eight people were euthanased every day in Britain in 2004, according to a study in the journal Palliative Medicine. The figures are...

Here's the ultimate in organ donation kitsch: a kidney stone passed by the commander of the Starship Enterprise has been sold to an on-line gaming...

A paralysed Korean woman who took some faltering steps after treatment with adult stem cells in 2004 says that her treatment has failed badly. She...

The idea that people have a moral duty to participate in medical research may be gaining traction. The notion surfaced last year when utilitarian British...

Animal rights activists are campaigning for humane treatment of lobsters, a move which alarms fishermen in the American state of Maine. "These creatures are suffering...

Stem cells: Scientists at the Whitehead Institute for BioMedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, claim that stem cells from cloned embryos are likely to be safe...

The US Supreme Court has upheld Oregon's controversial assisted suicide law and declared that the Bush administration exceeded its authority in trying to undo the...

 Investigators have confirmed that stunning advances in embryonic stem cell research by a team of South Korean researchers were fraudulent. Stem cell researchers around the...

The only other research team to have successfully cloned human embryos has quarrelled and split up in a dispute about unprofessional self-promotion. Two professors at...

After Professor Hwang failed to derive embryonic stem cell lines from more than 2000 human eggs, it is obvious that cloning human embryos will not...