Governments need to set ethical standards now for dealing with a possible influenza epidemic, says a Canadian bioethics thinktank. Based on the experience of the...

A messy surrogacy lawsuit is looming in Massachusetts which pits a best-selling novelist, her husband and her surrogate mother against the surrogate's estranged husband. Jacquelyn...

Adoption law should be liberalised to allow single people and gay couples to engage surrogate mothers, says a major report in the Australian state of...

After IVF treatment one woman in seven is hospitalised with serious complications, Finnish researchers have found. This is almost twice the number for natural pregnancies,...

Close on the heels of Oscar-winning euthanasia films "Million Dollar Baby" and "Mar Adentro" ("The Sea Inside"), Hollywood producer Steve Jones is working on a...

 Following the deaths of four women who took the abortion drug RU- 486, Federal drug regulators in the US have announced that they will convene...

A leading New York cosmetic surgeon is offering "the most expensive and extensive plastic surgery procedure in history" as the ultimate Christmas gift. For US$1...

 The world's leading scientific journal, Nature, has demanded a Korean government investigation of claims that its world-beating stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk obtained human eggs...

 Without a single exception, responsible stem sell scientists are outspoken foes of reproductive cloning. Nearly every plea for the legalisation of therapeutic cloning or for...

The Swiss assisted suicide group Dignitas is being investigated after a healthy 69-year-old German woman killed herself with its help. The woman, who has not...

 One of the casualties of this season's American TV is Inconceivable, an NBC series about life in a fertility clinic. It ran only long enough...

American children conceived with donor sperm are seeking their biological father through an internet website ? and finding half- siblings by the dozen. Using the...