UK police are seeking advice from the Crown Prosecution Service about whether to question a family who accompanied their mother to Switzerland so that she could die by assisted suicide. Dr Anne Turner, who had progressive supranuclear palsy, took a lethal dose of barbiturates in a flat in Zurich wit...

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News, A Scottish Catholic bishop has condemned the Government's policy on abortions for under-16s following the failure of the Sue Axon legal challenge. Bishop Joseph Devine said of the policy, which allows under-16s to undergo abortions without parental knowledge or consent: "On the one hand, as ...

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News, A UK doctor has died in Zurich with the aid of the assisted suicide organisation Dignitas, BBC reports. Dr Anne Turner, 66, a retired family planning expert, had the degenerative disease supranuclear palsy and claimed she attempted suicide with drugs before but failed. In an interview with t...

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A UK doctor has died in Zurich with the aid of the assisted suicide organisation Dignitas, BBC reports. Dr Anne Turner, 66, a retired family planning expert, had the degenerative disease supranuclear palsy and claimed she attempted suicide with drugs before but failed. In an interview with the BBC b...

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Catch up on all the big news stories from the past week - here are some you may have missed:A UK doctor has died in Zurich with the aid of the assisted suicide organisation Dignitas, the BBC reports. Dr Anne Turner, 66, a retired family planning expert, had the degenerative disease supranuclear pals...

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Abortion judgement will cause confusion and anger, says SPUC Abortion judgement will cause confusion and anger, says SPUC Westminster, 23rd January 2006 - The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) said today that parents will be confused and angry at the judgment of Mr Justice Sil...

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A survey conducted by Brunel University has estimated that nearly 2,000 people were killed by doctors performing "involuntary euthanasia" in 2004. The BBC report claims that a further 936 patients were killed at their own request (voluntary euthanasia). Together, the figures suggest that about 0.5% ...

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News, A survey conducted by Brunel University has estimated that nearly 2,000 people were killed by doctors performing "involuntary euthanasia" in 2004. The BBC report claims that a further 936 patients were killed at their own request (voluntary euthanasia). Together, the figures suggest that abo...

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News, The Centre for Bioethics and Public Policy (CBPP), a UK bioethics think-tank has criticised plans to create hybrid human-rabbit embryos for research purposes. Nigel Cameron, chairman of CBPP, said that it "establishes British leadership in the depressing journey towards the Brave New World."...

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The Centre for Bioethics and Public Policy (CBPP), a UK bioethics think-tank has criticised plans to create hybrid human-rabbit embryos for research purposes. Nigel Cameron, chairman of CBPP, said that it "establishes British leadership in the depressing journey towards the Brave New World." Profess...

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Stem cell researchers are planning to create a hybrid rabbit-human embryo as an alternative to cloning human embryos. The team of scientists, including Professor Ian Wilmut who cloned Dolly the sheep, had originally planned to use human eggs to clone human embryos, working in collaboration with Prof...

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News, Stem cell researchers are planning to create a hybrid rabbit-human embryo as an alternative to cloning human embryos. The team of scientists, including Professor Ian Wilmut who cloned Dolly the sheep, had originally planned to use human eggs to clone human embryos, working in collaboration w...

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News, Exposure to insecticides could cause male infertility, according to an American study. Researchers at the University of Michigan found that men with higher levels of insecticide chemical chlorpyrifos in their blood had reduced amounts of testosterone. Dr John Meeker, who led the research, sa...

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Exposure to insecticides could cause male infertility, according to an American study. Researchers at the University of Michigan found that men with higher levels of insecticide chemical chlorpyrifos in their blood had reduced amounts of testosterone. Dr John Meeker, who led the research, said that ...

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Judge Samuel Alito, who has been nominated for the US Supreme Court, has said that he has "no agenda" to put an end to abortion. In response to stringent questioning from Democrat opponents in the Senate, Alito said that he would consider each abortion case individually: "I would approach the questi...

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News, Judge Samuel Alito, who has been nominated for the US Supreme Court, has said that he has "no agenda" to put an end to abortion. In response to stringent questioning from Democrat opponents in the Senate, Alito said that he would consider each abortion case individually: "I would approach th...

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News, A panel from Seoul National University has found that disgraced South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk faked two studies in which he claimed that he had successfully cloned human embryonic stem cells. The investigators said that the data in the papers was deliberately fabricated and that there...

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A panel from Seoul National University has found that disgraced South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk faked two studies in which he claimed that he had successfully cloned human embryonic stem cells. The investigators said that the data in the papers was deliberately fabricated and that there was no ...

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Catch up on all the big news stories from the past week - here are some you may have missed:The president of Seoul National University, where Hwang Woo-suk, the disgraced stem cell scientist, was professor, has apologised for the fraud that took place at his school. Chung Un-chan said: "Hwang's rese...

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A journalist whose elderly mother-in-law became seriously malnourished whilst in hospital has written about her experience in a hard-hitting article in the Guardian newspaper. The 79-year-old was admitted to hospital after she broke her hip and subsequently contracted a hospital bug. Her family was ...

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