The House of Lords has debated the select committee report on assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia, the Telegraph reports. Lord Joffe, a euthanasia campaigner who introduced a Patient (Assisted Dying) Bill into the Lords two years ago, said he will introduce a recast version of the Bill designe...

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News, The House of Lords has debated the select committee report on assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia, the Telegraph reports. Lord Joffe, a euthanasia campaigner who introduced a Patient (Assisted Dying) Bill into the Lords two years ago, said he will introduce a recast version of the Bill...

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News, An Italian man who was in a coma for two years after a traffic accident has recovered consciousness. Salvatore Crisafulli told reporters "The doctors said that I wasn't conscious, but I understood everything and I cried in desperation". The news coincided with the publication by an Italian n...

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An Italian man who was in a coma for two years after a traffic accident has recovered consciousness. Salvatore Crisafulli told reporters "The doctors said that I wasn't conscious, but I understood everything and I cried in desperation". The news coincided with the publication by an Italian national ...

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A verdict of accidental death was recorded after an inquest into the death of a 91-year-old woman who died weighing just five stone after being inadequately fed at a Greater Manchester hospital. Sarah Ingham was prescribed a 'soft diet' of mashed food but, according to her daughter, this was often o...

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News, A verdict of accidental death was recorded after an inquest into the death of a 91-year-old woman who died weighing just five stone after being inadequately fed at a Greater Manchester hospital. Sarah Ingham was prescribed a 'soft diet' of mashed food but, according to her daughter, this was...

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Proposed independent advocates will encourage inhuman medical practice, says SPUC Proposed independent advocates will encourage inhuman medical practice, says SPUC Westminster, - The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has said that Independent Medical Capacity Advocates (IMCAs...

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News, The BBC has claimed that thousands of 'illegal "backstreet" abortions' are thought to occur in Portugal every year. The claim was made in a report that Portugal's Socialist government has called for a referendum to abolish the legal stipulation for there to be mental or physical health risks...

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The BBC has claimed that thousands of 'illegal "backstreet" abortions' are thought to occur in Portugal every year. The claim was made in a report that Portugal's Socialist government has called for a referendum to abolish the legal stipulation for there to be mental or physical health risks or othe...

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Dr Michael Irwin, the doctor who tried to help his friend to commit suicide, has been struck off the medical register, the Glasgow-based Herald reports. The General Medical Council ruled that he behaved in an unprofessional, inappropriate and irresponsible manner when he travelled to the Isle of Man...

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News, Dr Michael Irwin, the doctor who tried to help his friend to commit suicide, has been struck off the medical register, the Glasgow-based Herald reports. The General Medical Council ruled that he behaved in an unprofessional, inappropriate and irresponsible manner when he travelled to the Isl...

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News, Increasing numbers of fertile women are opting for IVF treatment because it provides them with an "instant" pregnancy, according to the Daily Telegraph. Michael Dooley, a gynaecologist, obstetrician and fertility expert, said that in the past five years he has seen a 20 per cent increase in ...

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Increasing numbers of fertile women are opting for IVF treatment because it provides them with an "instant" pregnancy, according to the Daily Telegraph. Michael Dooley, a gynaecologist, obstetrician and fertility expert, said that in the past five years he has seen a 20 per cent increase in the numb...

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The government's Chief Medical Officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, has published part of his report into the allegations against the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) by under-cover Sunday Telegraph reporters last year. The report accepted the Sunday Telegraph's evidence that BPAS had given women t...

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News, The government's Chief Medical Officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, has published part of his report into the allegations against the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) by under-cover Sunday Telegraph reporters last year. The report accepted the Sunday Telegraph's evidence that BPAS had given...

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News, Embryos have been developed from whole frozen sheep ovaries for the first time. Researchers in Israel removed ewes' ovaries, froze them, thawed them and then tranplanted them back into the ewes. In some of the sheep ovulation resumed, and ova were recovered and used to create embryo sheep. D...

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Embryos have been developed from whole frozen sheep ovaries for the first time.Researchers in Israel removed ewes' ovaries, froze them, thawed them and then tranplanted them back into the ewes. In some of the sheep ovulation resumed, and ova were recovered and used to create embryo sheep. Dr Amir Ar...

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Mr John Roberts, who is nominated to be Chief Justice of America's Supreme Court, refused to answer questions about abortion posed by Democrats at his confirmation hearing on Tuesday. He said that the Roe v. Wade ruling, which legalised abortion in the US, carried weight and is "entitled to respect"...

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News, Mr John Roberts, who is nominated to be Chief Justice of America's Supreme Court, refused to answer questions about abortion posed by Democrats at his confirmation hearing on Tuesday. He said that the Roe v. Wade ruling, which legalised abortion in the US, carried weight and is "entitled to ...

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News, Susan Ann Torres, the daughter born to a brain-dead woman on 2 August, died yesterday. Susan Torres' mother collapsed with a stroke in May and was kept on life support in order to give her unborn child time to develop to viability. The prognosis for the baby had been good, but she died follo...

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