Stem cell support depends on pollster’s questions
Support for embryonic stem cell research in opinion polls depends on the wording of questions, says Public Agenda Alert. "Within the complex issue of stem...
Should US doctors help execute death row prisoners?
Lobby groups are trying to expose doctors who participate in legal executions in the US and then charge them with violating codes of medical ethics....
Guantanamo interrogators using prisoners’ medical records
American military interrogators have been given access to the medical records of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Medical ethics experts have denounced this as...
IN BRIEF: new embryo rules ~ Greek nursing homes
New rules to safeguard frozen embryos, sperm and eggs have been introduced by the UK's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority after a number of incidents...
“Slow euthanasia” is the way to go, say Dutch doctors
Dutch doctors prefer "terminal sedation" to lethal medications, according to a survey by Nijmegan University. Under this system, all treatment, food and water are withheld...
More doctors fail to report euthanasia in Netherlands
The Dutch health minister, Cl?mence Ross, has insisted that doctors who perform euthanasia must report it, after the number of reported cases dropped for the...
Dutch OK Euthanasia for dementia patients
The Dutch Justice Minister has backed a decision by the Procurators-General Council that dementia can be a valid reason for euthanasia, provided that certain conditions...
Alan Trounson lobbies for therapeutic cloning at UN
Australia's most prominent stem cell scientist,Alan Trounson, has joined other scientific luminaries in an attempt to sway a vote on human cloning in the United...
Obesity could sink Britain’s health system
The weight of obesity could sink the UK's cash-strapped National Health System predicts a gloomy report from the House of Commons Health Committee. "Obesity will...
Ethical hurdles for face transplants
Doctors at the University of Louisville in the US have successfully experimented with face transplants on cadavers and are now ready for living patients, according...
Israeli organ traffickers shift operations to China
An Israeli organ trafficking ring which was smashed in South Africa last year has shifted its operations to China, according to a report in the...
Lax regulation lets Israeli scientists clone away
Israel will be left in the dust in the biotechnology race unless researchers are given free rein in embryo research, scientists have told their government....