Bioethics in the News — May 08

May 8, 2006

• University of California San Francisco Resumes [Cloning and] Human Embryo Stem Cell Work (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Cloning Efforts Resume in U.S. (Wall Street Journal)
• Santorum and Specter team up on stem-cell bill (Philadelphia Inquirer)
• Bishops to Fight Assisted Dying (The Sunday Times)
• Scientists Discover Gene Linked to Higher Rates of Prostate Cancer (New York Times)
• Drug Plan Is Meeting Goals (Los Angeles Times)
• Panel Faults Pfizer in ’96 Clinical Trial In Nigeria (Washington Post)
• A Couple To Create A Designer Baby As A “Saviour Sibling” (MedIndia)
• A Family’s Seminal Moment (Washington Post)
• CDC to Urge Routine HIV Tests For a Broad Swath of Americans (Wall Street Journal)
• To Reduce Errors, Hospitals Prescribe Innovative Designs (Wall Street Journal)
• Gene Screens Promise Nutrition Insights (HealthDay)
• Embryo checks ‘should be widened’ (BBC)
• Self-repair gene therapy promise (BBC)