Baby research funds demanded
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Action Medical Research claims that babies' lives are being put at risk by a lack of government funding.
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Parents in Britain are spending an average of nearly Â£3,000 a year on each child, a survey suggests.
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Select Committee wants evidence The new joint committee on the draft Human Tissue and Embryos Bill has issued a call for evidence as it starts its analysis of the proposed legislation.â¦
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Britain's leading scientific institution  said Monday it is urging countries to back a campaign to stop a  possible ban on stem cell research as part of a global treaty  banning human cloning. The London-based Royal Society is  stepping up its drive to push the United Nations to ban the  cloning of babies, but to make no ruling on using the  technology for medical research, or therapeutic cloning, at its  59th General Session in October. The 191-nation U.N. General  Assembly is divided over whether to allow therapeutic cloning  to continue or to adopt a broad cloning ban championed by the  Bush administration and Costa Rica with strong backing from the  U.S. anti-abortion movement and many predominantly Roman  Catholic nations.
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Good news for the nation's babies: Nearly 90 percent of newborns are getting tested for a host of rare but devastating genetic disorders.
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The discovery that antidepressants  may increase suicidal tendencies in children  has prompted some  lawmakers and physicians to ask if changes are needed to  financial incentives given to drug makers for pediatric  research.
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The discovery that antidepressants  may increase suicidal tendencies in children has prompted some  lawmakers and physicians to ask if changes are needed to  financial incentives given to drug makers for pediatric  research.
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Science & environment: Scientists will this week launch a recruitment campaign aimed at five million members of the British public. Volunteers will be asked to give blood and DNA samples to the UK Biobank, a controversial new national gene database.
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Researchers last night called for further investigation into whether babies born by caesarean section were at extra risk of food allergies and diarrhoea.
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Britain's largest medical research charity pledges Â£4bn to investigate the world's killer diseases.
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Hundreds of millions in federal funds are authorized for research and early intervention.
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The U.S. National Institutes of  Health, which spent nearly $20 billion last year funding  research, urged scientists on Thursday to let the agency  publish their studies on the Internet.
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Egg and sperm donors could be paid thousands of pounds in expenses under plans being considered.
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The case of a medical student requesting extra breaks on lengthy tests so she can pump breast milk is a harbinger of what could become a growing problem.
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Science & environment: Tens of thousands of children could be diagnosed earlier and more cheaply after pioneering research.
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Calls for sweeping changes to investigations into sudden infant deaths have been welcomed by commentators.
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British scientists called on Friday for more research into the possibility that it is harmful for women to take folic acid supplements throughout pregnancy.