Better embryos than animals, say drug companies
Pressure by animal welfare groups on drug and biotech companies to stop testing their products on animals means that they will use human embryos instead,...
Skirmishing begins in Australian stem cell war
Wary of being criticised for over-selling the promise of their research, Australian stem cell scientists have begun a campaign to convince the public that it...
Underground euthanasia growing, says researcher
An international right-to-die movement is developing methods of facilitating assisted death which are "simple, painless, inexpensive and impossible to trace", according to a feature in...
Drinking and doctoring “rife” in UK, says BBC
The BBC has claimed that intoxication is "rife" amongst British doctors. The British Medical Association estimates that one in 15 doctors abuses drugs or alcohol....
When is a veto really a veto?
A study of the words which American President George Bush uses to browbeat Congress shows that his language becomes most categorical when he is dealing...
America, land of fruits and nuts?
A government-funded study has found that more than half of Americans will develop a mental illness at some time in their lives. This startling statistic...
Forget about therapies, says stem cell researcher
The cost of "therapeutic" cloning will be too high to cure patients, says Alan Trounson, one of the world's leading stem cell researchers. But cloning...
Drug companies targeting doctors with prescription records
US drug companies are tailoring their marketing to individual doctors with lists detailing their prescribing habits, according to Slate magazine. The lists are created by...
Israel to permit sex selection
The Israeli Health Ministry has come under fire for authorising social sex selection. Requests will only be granted, according to ministry guidelines, when "there is...
Are Snowflake embryos donated or adopted?
With the support of the Bush administration, Christian groups in the US are cooperating with IVF clinics to arrange for frozen embryos to be given...
Czech Gypsies demand apology for forced sterilisations
The Czech ombudsman is examining the stories of more than 60 Roma (Gypsy) women who complain that doctors sterilised them against their will. Large families...
Romanian police catch an organ donor
A 30-year-old thief in jail has become the first Romanian charged with organ trafficking, even though he was a donor, not a buyer. Robert Mihaly...