Grieving Texas mother harvests dead son’s sperm
Part of healing process, she says A Texas woman has persuaded a court to allow her to harvest her 21-year-old son's sperm after his death...
Washington opens doors to physician-assisted suicide
Follows November’s referendum "Death with dignity”, aka physician-assisted suicide, became legal in Washington state today. Nearly 60% of voters supported the radical change in a...
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COUNTDOWN TO FIRST WOMB TRANSPLANT
Despite unease amongst doctors and ethicists, a New York hospital is preparing to offer the first uterus transplant in the US. Dr Giuseppe Del Priore...
NY DOC READY FOR WOMB TRANSPLANT
A New York hospital has given the green light for a womb transplant -- even though the only human transplant a few years ago failed...
TEXAS DEBATES FUTILE CARE LAW
Legislators are having second thoughts about a controversial futile- care law in Texas. This stipulates that if a hospital review committee feels that further treatment...
ARE WOMB TRANSPLANTS AROUND THE CORNER?
A British doctor has claimed that his team is only two years away from being able to transplant a womb so that women who lack...
TEXAS “FUTILE CARE” LAW UNDER ATTACK AGAIN
Another weakness in Texas's futile care law has emerged in the case of a woman who suffered brain damage after her breathing tube became disconnected...