News, The Scottish health minister has been criticised for ruling out making the morning after pill available in schools before the group he set up published its report. Malcolm Chisholm set up the group in a bid to cut Scotland's high rate of teenage pregnancy and STI. It has recommended quic...

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News, A two-and-a-half-year investigation has been completed of a Swiss nurse who killed 24 elderly patients in nursing homes and attempted to kill a further three. The nurse, who has been dubbed 'Angel of Death' by the Swiss media, told investigators that he killed the patients by administeri...

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News, A two-and-a-half-year investigation has been completed of a Swiss nurse who killed 24 elderly patients in nursing homes and attempted to kill a further three. The nurse, who has been dubbed 'Angel of Death' by the Swiss media, told investigators that he killed the patients by administering l...

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News, A group of 49 US congressmen have urged President Bush not to allow over-the-counter distribution of the morning after pill, Family News reports. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommended making the pill available without prescription last year. However, the congressmen warned that ...

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News, A group of 49 US congressmen have urged President Bush not to allow over-the-counter distribution of the morning after pill, Family News reports. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommended making the pill available without prescription last year. However, the congressmen warned t...

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News, Miscarriage risk could be predicted by measuring protein levels, according to researchers at Monash University, Victoria, Australia. The study, published in The Lancet medical journal found that levels of the MIC 1 protein were a third lower in women who suffered a miscarriage compared t...

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News, Miscarriage risk could be predicted by measuring protein levels, according to researchers at Monash University, Victoria, Australia. The study, published in The Lancet medical journal found that levels of the MIC 1 protein were a third lower in women who suffered a miscarriage compared to wo...

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News, Nine Hungarian hospitals have agreed not to perform abortions on the Day of the Unborn Child, the UN International Day of Life and the feast of the holy innocents, thanks to the efforts of the pro-life group Alpha Alliance and others who organised a pro-life procession and prayer vigil in Bu...

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News, Nine Hungarian hospitals have agreed not to perform abortions on the Day of the Unborn Child, the UN International Day of Life and the feast of the holy innocents, thanks to the efforts of the pro-life group Alpha Alliance and others who organised a pro-life procession and prayer vigil i...

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News, An Italian Catholic priest working in Uganda has urged the country to resist pressure from the West to legalise abortion. Fr Felix Sciqnnqmeo made his comments during celebrations to mark World Peace Day. [AllAfrica.com, 6 January ] A woman living in London is taken legal action over the...

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News, An Italian Catholic priest working in Uganda has urged the country to resist pressure from the West to legalise abortion. Fr Felix Sciqnnqmeo made his comments during celebrations to mark World Peace Day. [AllAfrica.com, 6 January] A woman living in London is taken legal action over the trea...

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News, New Jersey has become the second US state to legalise human cloning, LifeSite reports. The new legislation permits embryonic stem cell research, cell nuclear transfer and the development of human clones until birth. Prof. Gerard Bradley of Notre Dame Law School has pointed out that a woman c...

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News, New Jersey has become the second US state to legalise human cloning, LifeSite reports. The new legislation permits embryonic stem cell research, cell nuclear transfer and the development of human clones until birth. Prof. Gerard Bradley of Notre Dame Law School has pointed out that a wom...

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News, 57% of IVF couples would consent to their 'spare' embryos being used for research purposes, a survey has revealed. Experts claim that consent depends upon the amount of available information about stem cell research, with Professor Alison Murdoch, chairman of the British Fertility Societ...

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News, 57% of IVF couples would consent to their 'spare' embryos being used for research purposes, a survey has revealed. Experts claim that consent depends upon the amount of available information about stem cell research, with Professor Alison Murdoch, chairman of the British Fertility Society, c...

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News, Britain's Liberal Democrat party wants dead people's consent to the removal of their organs for transplant to be assumed. Dr Evan Harris, the party's health spokesman, has asked the government to allow a free parliamentary vote on a bill which would abolish the need for people to give advanc...

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News, Britain's Liberal Democrat party wants dead people's consent to the removal of their organs for transplant to be assumed. Dr Evan Harris, the party's health spokesman, has asked the government to allow a free parliamentary vote on a bill which would abolish the need for people to give ad...

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News, In his Christmas sermon the Anglican archbishop of Canterbury mentioned a current legal case concerning the abortion of a baby who had a cleft palate. Most Rev Rowan Williams spoke of how the media had seemed irritated by Rev Joanna Jepson, a curate who is challenging the West Mercia pol...

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News, In his Christmas sermon the Anglican archbishop of Canterbury mentioned a current legal case concerning the abortion of a baby who had a cleft palate. Most Rev Rowan Williams spoke of how the media had seemed irritated by Rev Joanna Jepson, a curate who is challenging the West Mercia police,...

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News, The archbishop of Dublin, government ministers, members of parliament and the senate, and some 400 private citizens wrote to the Irish deputy prime minister to urge her to oppose European Union proposals for human embryo research. Cardinal Desmond Connell led lobbying of Ms Mary Harney and a...

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