Bioethics in the News — May 05

May 5, 2006

• Report: Transplant Regulators Swamped (AP)
• What’s worse? Anticipating pain or the ouch? (MSNBC)
• Use of Contraception Drops, Slowing Decline of Abortion Rate (New York Times)
• Benefits of umbilical cord blood banking highlighted (Jordan Times)
• MS Woman in [Cord Blood] Stem Sell Therapy Hope (BBC)
• Saving Lives With Adult Stem Cells (11Alive)
• Op-Ed: Celling Spin (National Review)
• Court Backs Experimental Drugs for Dying Patients (Washingtoin Post)
• Stem Cell Firm Uses Swansea Ferry to Evade Irish Block on Controversial Treatment (Guardian)
• Cruel Cost of the Human Egg Trade (Guardian)
• Babies to Order (MSBC)