News, A survey in western England suggests that 70% of people favour state-funded in vitro fertilisation (IVF) for anyone who requests it. Bristol university's centre for reproductive medicine interviewed some 800 respondents. The National Institute for Clinical Excellence is expected to publish n...

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News, A survey in western England suggests that 70% of people favour state-funded in vitro fertilisation (IVF) for anyone who requests it. Bristol university's centre for reproductive medicine interviewed some 800 respondents. The National Institute for Clinical Excellence is expected to publi...

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News, British parliamentarians have criticised state health care for expectant mothers. The House of Commons health committee yesterday reported that babies were being delivered by caesarian section without their mothers' being able to make an informed choice. Most women who wanted to give bir...

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News, British parliamentarians have criticised state health care for expectant mothers. The House of Commons health committee yesterday reported that babies were being delivered by caesarian section without their mothers' being able to make an informed choice. Most women who wanted to give birth a...

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News, The English high court has told a health authority that it can stop giving food and drink to a 38-year-old woman who has been in a coma for nearly two years. Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, the senior family judge, invoked the 1993 House of Lords judgement concerning the late Mr Anthony Bland i...

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News, The English high court has told a health authority that it can stop giving food and drink to a 38-year-old woman who has been in a coma for nearly two years. Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, the senior family judge, invoked the 1993 House of Lords judgement concerning the late Mr Anthony Bla...

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News, The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) wants the government to allow women to perform abortions at home using drugs. Women must currently attend a clinic to take both mifepristone to detach the baby from the womb and misprostol to expel him or her. Ms Ann Furedi, BPAS chief execut...

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News, The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) wants the government to allow women to perform abortions at home using drugs. Women must currently attend a clinic to take both mifepristone to detach the baby from the womb and misprostol to expel him or her. Ms Ann Furedi, BPAS chief executive,...

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News, No Less Human, the disability rights group, has condemned the short time allowed for giving evidence to a parliamentary inquiry into the government's proposals to legalise euthanasia by neglect. The Joint Select Committee on the Draft Mental Incapacity Bill has called for evidence to be subm...

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News, No Less Human, the disability rights group, has condemned the short time allowed for giving evidence to a parliamentary inquiry into the government's proposals to legalise euthanasia by neglect. The Joint Select Committee on the Draft Mental Incapacity Bill has called for evidence to be ...

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Disability group condemns euthanasia inquiry guillotine Westminster, --A group representing disabled people has condemned as "scandalous" the extremely short time allowed for giving evidence to a parliamentary inquiry into the government's proposals to legalise euthanasia by neglect. The Joint Selec...

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News, Pre-natal screening could soon be available as early as five weeks into pregnancy, The Scotsman reports. Using a technique similar to a cervical smear, the new test could determine the gender of the baby and screen for a range of conditions such as Down's Syndrome and Cystic Fybrosis. If...

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News, Pre-natal screening could soon be available as early as five weeks into pregnancy, The Scotsman reports. Using a technique similar to a cervical smear, the new test could determine the gender of the baby and screen for a range of conditions such as Down's Syndrome and Cystic Fybrosis. If tri...

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SPUC president appointed bishop SPUC president appointed bishop London, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has congratulated SPUC president Reverend Professor Anthony Fisher O.P. on his appointment as an auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Sydney, Australia. SPUC chairman ...

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News, Researchers at Tommy's Hospital in London are to carry out a study into the possible benefits of giving vitamin supplements to pregnant women who are at risk of pre-eclampsia. The condition causes a pregnant woman's blood pressure to rise to dangerous levels and is thought to affect up to 25...

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News, Researchers at Tommy's Hospital in London are to carry out a study into the possible benefits of giving vitamin supplements to pregnant women who are at risk of pre-eclampsia. The condition causes a pregnant woman's blood pressure to rise to dangerous levels and is thought to affect up t...

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News, Following the deaths of the Iranian conjoined twins during separation surgery, two Egyptian boys joined at the head are to undergo surgery in the next few months. Ahmed and Mohamed Ibrahim are joined in such a way that it will be difficult for them ever to walk and at only two years old...

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News, 14 July 2003 Following the deaths of the Iranian conjoined twins during separation surgery, two Egyptian boys joined at the head are to undergo surgery in the next few months. Ahmed and Mohamed Ibrahim are joined in such a way that it will be difficult for them ever to walk and at only two ...

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SPUC welcomes morning-after pill ban in Scottish schools Glasgow, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has welcomed reports that the Scottish executive will reject moves to allow the abortifacient morning-after pill to be supplied in Scottish schools. SPUC Scotland director Ian...

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News, The Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the Slovak parliament have said that they will not sign a bill passed last week allowing abortion up to 24 weeks "in cases of genetic defects." Slovak President Rudolf Schuster has said that he will not sign the bill without their signatures. Slovak media re...

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