Israel forms national bioethics council
Israel's new national bioethics council has been stacked with a small, yet dominant, group of lecturers and researcher who tend to favour minimal regulation and...
Is the commitment of dermatology to medicine only skin-deep?
To the disgust of some dermatologists, their specialty is in danger of becoming a branch of beauty therapy, according to a report in Business Week....
Britain considers electronic chaperone for doctors
In an effort to combat abuses by predatory doctors and false accusations by patients, Britain's National Health Service may force doctors to have a nurse...
ODD SPOT: poor cellsmanship
A Buffalo, New York, school bus driver was fired after she told students that actor Mel Gibson had said that embryonic stem cell research had...
IN BRIEF: designer baby; IVF; new bioethics centres
Designer baby: A British woman is pregnant with the UK's first designer baby". In July Julie Fletcher and her husband Joe won approval from the...
Scientists grappling with chimera ethics
The US National Academy of Sciences is studying the ethical limits of research with chimeras, or mixed-species animals, an issue which is becoming more urgent...
Koreans claim that adult stem cells have cured paralysed woman
Researchers at Chosun University in South Korea claim that stem cells from umbilical cord blood injected into the spine of a woman paralysed for 19...
Asian stem cell centres “mind-boggling”
UK scientists returning from a visit to Asia report that a staggering level of technology and commitment is being put into stem cell research in...
Evidence for health of IVF babies “relatively weak”
A surprisingly negative report from the UK's Medical Research Council (MRC) has concluded that contrary to popular belief, the evidence for the long-term health of...
Animal rights extremists undermine democracy, says Oxford head
The new chancellor of Oxford University in the UK has made a blistering attack on animal rights extremists. In his first speech as Chancellor, Mr...
Dutch euthanasia cases
Two recent test cases in the Netherlands have helped to clarify the distinction between murder and palliative care. In the first, the Dutch Supreme Court...
Desperate” couples offered unproven IVF treatment
Unscrupulous fertility clinics are offering women unproven and potentially risky tests and treatments based on the theory that natural killer cells" in the womb may...