April 6, 2010
Websites associated with Exit International and its suicide manual, the Peaceful Pill Handbook, are expected to be refused classification and therefore to be inaccessible from Australian computers once a mandatory internet filter is in place. (Sydney Morning Herald)
April 5, 2010
AGENTS of pharmaceutical companies are offering cash “rewards” on Facebook to lure young people into drug trials. (The Daily Telegraph)
April 5, 2010
New York State’s highest court has refused to order nursing homes to give state lawyers access to hundreds of psychiatric patients so they can advocate for their rights to treatment alternatives, living conditions or even release. (New York Times)
April 5, 2010
Canada’s first open embryo donation program is being launched today by Beginnings Family Services, a not-for-profit registered charity providing compassionate pregnancy support services, infertility counseling, and adoption services to clients since 1985. “Embryo donation addresses a major dilemma for many … Read More
April 5, 2010
The first TV advert to tackle the issue of suicide is to be aired during commercial breaks in Scotland. About two people a day in Scotland take their own lives and it continues to be a leading cause of death … Read More
April 5, 2010
People who want, on their death, to donate their organs to a relative or close friend can do so with immediate effect under new government guidance, which covers the United Kingdom. [Premium (BMJ)]
April 5, 2010
t is often argued that clinical research should not violate the Kantian principle that people must not be used merely as a means for the purposes of others. At first sight, the practice of clinical research itself, however, seems to … Read More
April 1, 2010
Hacking and making is no longer just about hardware and software, increasingly it is about wetware – that’s biology to the uninitiated. (BBC News)
April 1, 2010
While the sale of solid organs has been illegal in the United States since 1984, compensation for sperm and eggs has been permitted under the guise of compensating “donors” for the time, exertion and risk entailed in the harvesting process. … Read More
April 1, 2010
The journal Nature today released a massive retrospective on the tenth anniversary of the Human Genome Project (officially celebrated June 26 of this year), which included two important pieces from genomics pioneers J. Craig Venter and Francis Collins. While retrospectives … Read More
April 1, 2010
This issue has obvious social and ethical implications and is a good example of how advances in scientific knowledge and technology constantly challenge society to find acceptable outlets for their application. Gender selection is legal in most of the world, … Read More
April 1, 2010
Key difference between reprogrammed adult mouse cells and embryonic stem cells discovered. (Nature News)
