Call to revoke Nobel prize for lobotomy inventor
Relatives of patients who underwent lobotomies are lobbying to revoke a Nobel Prize for Medicine awarded to the inventor of the procedure. Portuguese neurosurgeon Egas...
IN BRIEF: conflict of interest; neuticles
Forty-four scientists working for the US National Institutes of Health have violated ethics rules on working with pharmaceutical companies, according to a review of conflicts...
Living with locked-in syndrome
An extraordinary account of life with locked-in syndrome by a young New Zealand rugby player has been published in the British Medical Journal.An extraordinary account...
California baby 13 years in the making
A California woman has given birth to her third triplet 13 years after the first two were born. It is the longest time that a...
Egg market needed, says bioethicist
Some bioethicists want to establish a market for women's eggs to enable embryonic stem cell research to go forward. In an article in the New...
Missed opportunities with new UK screening test
Parents may miss opportunities to abort handicapped children if a new type of prenatal genetic testing is adopted in the UK, complain researchers in the...
Should bioethicists accept industry funding?
Industry-funded bioethics articles should not be published by professional journals, a prominent American bioethicist argues in The Lancet. Carl Elliott, of the University of Minnesota,...
Hundreds of millions lost in California surgery scam
Doctors are generally assumed to be honest -- but an investigation into massive insurance fraud in southern California shows that this is not always the...
Selling kidneys in Iraq
Iraq also has a problem with illegal surgery. The issue there is a black market in kidney transplants. Kidney disease is widespread and more than...
IN BRIEF: terri Schiavo; abuse denied
Florida governor Jeb Bush has closed state inquiries into the Terri Schiavo case after a review by a state attorney. Prosecutors reviewing the evidence found...
British doctors drop opposition to euthanasia
In an historic decision, the British Medical Association has voted not to oppose assisted suicide and euthanasia. Delegates at the BMA's annual conference agreed that...
Mixed signals over future of stem cell research
Several prominent stem cell scientists in the UK have complained that the media is overselling their research, according to the London Telegraph. "Over the decades...