News, The professor whose team at King's College London created the UK's first stem cell line from IVF embryos, has defended the work as "wholly ethical" on the grounds that the embryos would otherwise have been discarded. Professor Peter Braude stated: "The UK stem cell bank is an idea worth supp...

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News, The Age newspaper has run a feature on teenage parents in the wake of the report that Australia has one of the highest teen pregnancy and abortion rates in the world. The feature looks at teenagers who opted against abortion and the challenges and difficulties they have had to deal with. It ...

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News, The Age newspaper has run a feature on teenage parents in the wake of the report that Australia has one of the highest teen pregnancy and abortion rates in the world. The feature looks at teenagers who opted against abortion and the challenges and difficulties they have had to deal with....

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News, The bishop-elect for the Isle of Man has refused to express his views on assisted suicide but has encouraged the debate on euthanasia. The Reverend Graeme Knowles, who is due to take up his post in December, said: "Our task as Christians is to have sensible debate - that is what the chur...

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News, The bishop-elect for the Isle of Man has refused to express his views on assisted suicide but has encouraged the debate on euthanasia. The Reverend Graeme Knowles, who is due to take up his post in December, said: "Our task as Christians is to have sensible debate - that is what the church i...

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News, A Cardiff lesbian is pregnant with Wales' first Internet baby, conceived through sperm bought via the website Man Not Included. According to the report in Wales on Sunday, 25 women try for Internet babies in Wales every month, with the website allowing women to choose donors for characterist...

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News, A Cardiff lesbian is pregnant with Wales' first Internet baby, conceived through sperm bought via the website Man Not Included. According to the report in Wales on Sunday, 25 women try for Internet babies in Wales every month, with the website allowing women to choose donors for characte...

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News, Scientists in north-east England have used human embryos to grow cells capable of reproducing themselves. Professor Alison Murdoch, whose team at Newcastle upon Tyne's Centre for Life produced the cells, thanked the couples who had given up over 100 human embryos to the programme. Paul D...

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News, Scientists in north-east England have used human embryos to grow cells capable of reproducing themselves. Professor Alison Murdoch, whose team at Newcastle upon Tyne's Centre for Life produced the cells, thanked the couples who had given up over 100 human embryos to the programme. Paul Danon...

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News, An elderly couple committed suicide together because they did not want one of them to die before the other, the BBC reports. Rona and Helmut Mey-Hilton were found dead in their car having gassed themselves. A post mortem later confirmed that they died of carbon monoxide poisoning. Mrs Mey-Hi...

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News, An elderly couple committed suicide together because they did not want one of them to die before the other, the BBC reports. Rona and Helmut Mey-Hilton were found dead in their car having gassed themselves. A post mortem later confirmed that they died of carbon monoxide poisoning. Mrs Me...

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News, Scientists at King's College, London, have grown human embryonic stem cells from an IVF embryo for the first time in the UK. Researchers claim that embryonic stem cells will eventually provide revolutionary treatments for Parkinson's and Alzheimer's but pro-life groups have pointed out t...

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News, Scientists at King's College, London, have grown human embryonic stem cells from an IVF embryo for the first time in the UK. Researchers claim that embryonic stem cells will eventually provide revolutionary treatments for Parkinson's and Alzheimer's but pro-life groups have pointed out that ...

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News, International Planned Parenthood reports that the Beijing Municipality has eased its birth control policy to allow couples who fall within certain criteria to have a second child. The local birth control committee claim that the revision is for the protection of citizens and to ensure 'safe ...

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News, International Planned Parenthood reports that the Beijing Municipality has eased its birth control policy to allow couples who fall within certain criteria to have a second child. The local birth control committee claim that the revision is for the protection of citizens and to ensure 's...

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News, A UK government health watchdog has recommended making IVF treatment available free on the National Health Service. In draft guidance produced by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE), it was suggested that women under-40 should be offered up to 6 IVF cycles, proposals wh...

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News, A UK government health watchdog has recommended making IVF treatment available free on the National Health Service. In draft guidance produced by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE), it was suggested that women under-40 should be offered up to 6 IVF cycles, proposals which ...

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SPUC condemns free IVF proposal Westminster, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has reacted critically to reports that the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) may recommend that IVF treatment should be offered free to all women under 40 who experience fertility ...

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News, Half a million people in the UK aged between 45 and 69 are being asked to donate DNA samples as part of the UK Biobank project. The aim is to produce a database of genetic material, along with information about the donors such as medical histories, surroundings, diet and lifestyle, so as to ...

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News, Half a million people in the UK aged between 45 and 69 are being asked to donate DNA samples as part of the UK Biobank project. The aim is to produce a database of genetic material, along with information about the donors such as medical histories, surroundings, diet and lifestyle, so as ...

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