Abortion row fears over eye cure
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The restoration of a blind woman's sight using foetal tissues is likely to spark ethical debate, say scientists.
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The head of Kenya&#39;s medical association has urged doctors to protest at the murder trial of a gynaecologist accused of carrying out abortions.
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Paris  - The disclosure by a Dutch hospital that it has carried out euthanasia on terminally ill newborn babies has shocked pro-life groups, but the institution claims it is merely trying to bring into the open a practice already happening
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Further complicity between UK abortionists and the Spanish abortion clinic, Ginemedex, is revealed in The Sunday Telegraph (UK) today.
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The South African government&#39;s refusal to disclose the number of children receiving antiretroviral (ARV) drugs in KwaZulu-Natal province has raised fears among AIDS activists that children&#39;s rights to health care and life are being violated.
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A US firm's controversial proposition to store stem cells from spare IVF embryos has angered UK scientists.
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The technology for human facial transplants exists, but ethicists are worried about using it.
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The current 24-week limit on abortion is to come under review in parliament on Wednesday when health minister Dawn Primarolo faces questions from a panel of MPs.
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In 2001, the Netherlands became the first (only?) country in the west to permit "mercy killings". The law only allows such killings in very particular circumstances - a doctor can terminate the life of a person who was in great pain and had no hope of recovery. In addition, the law requires the informed consent of the patient.   A hospital in the Netherlands has asked to dispense with that annoying part about consent - and the equally annoying part about pain.
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Experts cast doubt on claims that a scientist has made embryos from dead people's tissue.
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Attorneys for the parents of a woman at the center of a right-to-die case argued Thursday she would have been profoundly affected by new Catholic teachings on end-of-life issues.
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British public in danger of losing its 'moral focus' on abortion, says Archbishop of Canterbury.
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REVELATIONS that an NHS-backed charity helped women to travel to Spain for abortions that would be illegal in Britain are proof that the UK - s abortion law should be relaxed, a leading pro-choice campaigner ...
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Most people think women have a right to choose an abortion, but the number is falling, a survey says.
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A former MP says she may go to the High Court to force the NHS to provide a drug which could help save her sight.
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Do not always expect straight talk from your doctor about treatments he or she disapproves of -- 14 percent of physicians believe it is acceptable to withhold information about topics such as birth control, abortion and sedating dying patients, according to a study published on Wednesday.
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A row is brewing over planned new laws which critics claim would allow euthanasia by the back door.