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Kass farewells bioethics council with ageing report Ageing is unpleasant, unwanted, and unprofitable. But the US will have to adjust to a large increase in...
A second look at PGD
A technique for detecting abnormalities in embryos may have been giving misleading results, according to papers presented at a Montreal conference of US and Canadian...
Financial links to drug use guidelines
Many of the researchers and doctors who write the rules on prescribing drugs have financial connections to the manufacturers, according to an investigation by the...
South Korea cloner opens stem cell “library” in US and UK
Korean cloning expert Hwang Woo-suk is to open a stem-cell "library" in Seoul with satellite laboratories in San Francisco and Oxford where human embryos can...
Foetal stem cells to be used to cure children
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the first transplant of foetal stem cells to cure a rare and fatal children's disease. It says...
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Do not resuscitate: British stroke patients with "do not resuscitate" orders on their medical notes are seven times more likely to die in the first...
New stem cell techniques fail to quench controversy
It may be possible to obtain embryonic stem cells without killing embryos, according to two papers published in the latest issue of Nature. Although many...
More reports of medical ethics violations at Guantanamo Bay
More allegations of ill-treatment of Guantanamo Bay prisoners by medics have been met with more denials by the US Government. Lawyers for detainees on a...
Stem cells may cause cancers
The unfolding science of stem cells has surprises for both layman and scientist. Anyone tracking its development is familiar with stem cells in the liver,...
New test for defects in unborn children
Hong Kong scientists report that they may have discovered an easier way to test for foetal birth defects. In an article in the Proceedings of...
Animal rights activists threat to Oxford
Nearly 30 builders and decorators in the UK have received threatening letters from the Animal Liberation Front because they are working for Oxford University and...
Genetic testing in US
Frustrated with the success of so-called "conservative" bioethicists in influencing public policy in the US, several "progressive" bioethicists have aligned themselves to the Democratic Party...