A campaign to amend Michigan's constitution to end the state's ban on stem cell research that results in the destruction of human embryos was launched this morning at a news conference at the Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit. (Detroit Free
A code of practice to regulate the use of electronic chips to screen embryos is to be drawn up by the European Fertility Society's ethics task force. (BBC)
A Central Florida foster child needs a life-saving liver, but doctors have taken him off a transplant list because they fear he cannot recover from surgery without a stable home. (Miami Herald)
The tragedy is likely to raise fresh concerns over the safety of testing medicines in clinical trials. Six healthy volunteers almost died two years ago after receiving TGN 1412, a rheumatoid arthritis and leukaemia drug. (Times Online)
Since the 1970s, the field of bioethics, a term coined independently by two professors, has dealt with ethical and moral questions resulting from advances in science and medicine. Its theoretical framework and approach, drawing from various disciplines, has tried to
Medicare has paid as much as $92 million since 2000 to medical suppliers who billed the government for wheelchairs and other home equipment purportedly prescribed by physicians who, according to records, were dead at the time, congressional investigators said yesterday.
Embryos near the very beginning of development can yield stem cells for therapeutic applications without being destroyed in the process, research has shown. (The Press Association)
An array of unions and liberal activist groups in Wisconsin have joined a national coalition that plans to spend $40 million to push for health care reform, particularly universal coverage, in the coming election. (redOrbit)
Infants born from embryos which were frozen and then thawed before being implanted into a woman had a higher birth weight and were less likely to suffer abnormalities. (Telegraph)
BBC Scotland journalist Paula MacKinnon uncovers a market for human organs in her attempt to donate one of her healthy kidneys to a stranger in a bid to save a life. (BBC)
American Journal of Bioethics (Vol 8, Issue 4, 2008) is now available by subscription only.Articles include:"Stem Cells and Genetic Testing: The Gap Between Science and Society Widens" by Ricki Lewis, 1 - 3."The Challenge of Research on Ethics Education" by
