April 29, 2011
NanoEthics (Volume 5, Issue 1, April 2011) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “Nano-Technology, Ethics, and Risk” by Wade L. Robison, 1-13. “Trust in Nanotechnology? On Trust as Analytical Tool in Social Research on Emerging Technologies” by Trond … Read More
April 29, 2011
ReNeuron Group plc (LON:RENE) confirmed it does not utilise human embryonic stem cells in its own research and development programmes, responding to developments in an ongoing European legal case involving a German party. Â (Proactive Investors)
April 29, 2011
In a crucial decision on surrogate births, a court ruled this week that a child born to a surrogate mother in India has no right to a German passport despite having a German biological father. Â (The Local)
April 29, 2011
A new report shows an upward trend in pregnancy-related deaths in California and that African-American women are most at risk. Â (Capital Public Radio)
April 29, 2011
federal appeals court has ruled in favor of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in a high-stakes law suit challenging the legality of the Obama Administration’s policy on human embryonic stem cells (hESCs). Â (Science Insider)
April 29, 2011
California officials have closed a makeshift ward for Chinese “maternity tourists†who had paid tens of thousands of dollars to deliver their babies in the US, making their babies automatic American citizens. About 10 women and their babies were sent … Read More
April 29, 2011
Canadian transplant surgeons are debating the ethics of transplanting the organs of foreign nationals. In some cases, according to the National Post, a surgeon wanted to operate on a foreign patient, but the hospital would not let him. Some hospitals … Read More
April 29, 2011
EARLIER this year came news of a second successful voice box transplant. But the recipient, Brenda Jensen, was able to have a new larynx only because she was already taking immunosuppressant drugs to stop her transplanted kidney and pancreas being rejected.  (New … Read More
April 29, 2011
The Chinese government is considering offering financial incentives to people to voluntarily donate organs. In 2007 China banned organ transplants from living donors, except spouses, blood relatives and step or adopted family members. In 2009 it launched a national system … Read More
April 29, 2011
Convicted rapist Kenneth Pike, of New York, was expected to undergo a life-saving heart transplant that could have cost as much as US$800,000, a price that would have been funded by taxpayers. The expense angered several crime victim advocates and community members, … Read More
April 29, 2011
Germany is considering alternative proposals for a new law on the use ofpreimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD). Â (PHD Foundation)
April 28, 2011
Thirty years after the first American baby from in vitro fertilization (IVF), Arizona‘s economic woes have all but replaced the limits of medical know-how as the chief reason infertile couples aren’t seeking help, says the medical director of Arizona‘s largest … Read More
April 28, 2011
More U.S. women seem to be using the “morning-after” pill now that the emergency contraceptive is available over-the-counter, a new study finds. (Reuters)
April 28, 2011
Preliminary results from China’s census, released today at a press conference in Beijing, reveal a population that is older, rapidly urbanizing, and growing more slowly, with a widening gap between male and female births. Those demographic changes, combined with comments … Read More
April 28, 2011
Work on revolutionary medical treatments for incurable diseases is in danger of being wiped out by a European court ruling on embryonic stem cells, according to leading scientists. (Guardian)
April 28, 2011
A man who suffocated his chronically ill partner with a plastic bag has avoided jail, with a judge saying he was faced with an “agonising conflict”. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
April 28, 2011
The April 27, 2011 report that Mitch Hunter,3o, had undergone a successful face transplant at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, has revitalized curiosity as well as some persistent myths about this revolutionary surgical procedure. Hunter, from Indiana, is the fourth person … Read More
April 28, 2011
When it’s most successful, in vitro fertilization, or IVF, yields far more embryos than a couple could ever use (unless that couple is the offspring-obsessed Duggar family). There are frequently frozen embryos left over, and the options for what to … Read More
April 28, 2011
Sex selection technologies and sex-selective abortion are legally prohibited in India, where their use in the service of son preference has produced dramatically skewed sex ratios. But Indian immigrants to the US face no official barriers to using new technologies … Read More
April 28, 2011
Joseph Maraachli, the boy whose family refused to accept a Canadian hospital’s recommendation to remove his breathing tube and allow him to die, is now breathing on his own without the assistance of a mechanical ventilator. The family flew back … Read More
April 27, 2011
More than 4,000 test tube babies were born in Ho Chi Minh City’s Tu Du Hospital since the hospital first conducted the reproductive technology 14 years ago.  (Thanh Nien)
April 27, 2011
Sarah Johnson looks on longingly when she sees mums out for a stroll with their babies.  For years it’s been her dream to have a precious child of her own.  But the 34-year-old has a host of health problems which … Read More
April 27, 2011
Routine screening of organ donors for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection has made transmission of HIV through organ transplantation rare in the United States. However, despite routine screening, transmission of HIV can be an uncommon complication of organ transplantation and … Read More
April 27, 2011
Texas pastor says boy’s mental capacity disqualifies him from the sacrament. Â (ABC News)
April 27, 2011
nvestigators creating a wealth of adult-derived stem-cell lines may soon get new banks for storing them. Unlike stem cells derived from human embryos, induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells face few political and ethical hurdles because they can be produced from … Read More
