News, Morning-after pills could soon be freely available in the UK over the counter from pharmacists without a doctor's prescription. The British Department of Health issued a press release last Friday with the news that the Committee on the Safety of Medicines had recommended the re-classificatio...

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News, Morning-after pills could soon be freely available in the UK over the counter from pharmacists without a doctor's prescription. The British Department of Health issued a press release last Friday with the news that the Committee on the Safety of Medicines had recommended the re-classific...

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News, The English Court of Appeal has ruled that a mentally handicapped woman should be fitted with an intra-uterine device. The mother of the 29 year-old woman had originally secured a court ruling that her handicapped daughter, described as very attractive, should be given a hysterectomy to ...

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News, The English Court of Appeal has ruled that a mentally handicapped woman should be fitted with an intra-uterine device. The mother of the 29 year-old woman had originally secured a court ruling that her handicapped daughter, described as very attractive, should be given a hysterectomy to prev...

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News, As the publication of the Donaldson committee report on human cloning is awaited in the UK, a similar situation exists in the United States. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) have been pondering a set of rules to govern cloning research for more than a year and their recommendations ar...

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News, As the publication of the Donaldson committee report on human cloning is awaited in the UK, a similar situation exists in the United States. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) have been pondering a set of rules to govern cloning research for more than a year and their recommendation...

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News, The Scotland on Sunday newspaper has reported that Dr Liam Donaldson's report on human cloning was delivered last week to British ministers. All the signs are that the report will recommend so-called therapeutic cloning, and the newspaper quotes a source inside the Department of Health a...

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News, The Scotland on Sunday newspaper has reported that Dr Liam Donaldson's report on human cloning was delivered last week to British ministers. All the signs are that the report will recommend so-called therapeutic cloning, and the newspaper quotes a source inside the Department of Health as sa...

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News, The Daily Mail newspaper in Britain today published claims that nurses are routinely demanding that elderly patients be classified as not for resuscitation. The story, which originally formed the main front-page headline but which was moved to page two in later editions, draws on a leaked le...

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News, The Daily Mail newspaper in Britain today published claims that nurses are routinely demanding that elderly patients be classified as not for resuscitation. The story, which originally formed the main front-page headline but which was moved to page two in later editions, draws on a leake...

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News, Cardinal Thomas Winning, archbishop of Glasgow, has written a strongly worded letter to Professor Liam Donaldson, Britain's chief medical officer, whose committee is soon to report on the issue of human cloning. In his capacity as chairman of the British and Irish Catholic bishops' joint...

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News, Cardinal Thomas Winning, archbishop of Glasgow, has written a strongly worded letter to Professor Liam Donaldson, Britain's chief medical officer, whose committee is soon to report on the issue of human cloning. In his capacity as chairman of the British and Irish Catholic bishops' joint com...

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News, President Clinton said yesterday that he expects Roe vs. Wade to be overturned if George Bush Jr. wins the U.S. presidency. The 1973 Supreme Court decision which gave all women a constitutional right to abortion could be overturned if the next president approves the appointment of just two p...

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News, President Clinton said yesterday that he expects Roe vs. Wade to be overturned if George Bush Jr. wins the U.S. presidency. The 1973 Supreme Court decision which gave all women a constitutional right to abortion could be overturned if the next president approves the appointment of just t...

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News, At 12.56 PM today, India's population will officially reach one billion. However, a digital population counter set up in New Delhi by the United Nations Population Fund to promote their concern of controlling population growth has stopped just hours before it reached the momentous total....

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News, At 12.56 PM today, India's population will officially reach one billion. However, a digital population counter set up in New Delhi by the United Nations Population Fund to promote their concern of controlling population growth has stopped just hours before it reached the momentous total. The...

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News, 2,216 people were helped by their doctors to die last year in the Netherlands, according to the so-called regional euthanasia review committees. By law, Dutch doctors must inform these committees, consisting of legal and medical experts, each time they are involved in an assisted suicide. So...

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News, 2,216 people were helped by their doctors to die last year in the Netherlands, according to the so-called regional euthanasia review committees. By law, Dutch doctors must inform these committees, consisting of legal and medical experts, each time they are involved in an assisted suicide...

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News, Advertisements for abortion providers could soon be appearing on British television. The Independent Television Commission has proposed abolishing or liberalising most of its controls on advertisers including the ban on suppliers of pregnancy testing services which also offer abortions o...

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News, Advertisements for abortion providers could soon be appearing on British television. The Independent Television Commission has proposed abolishing or liberalising most of its controls on advertisers including the ban on suppliers of pregnancy testing services which also offer abortions or ad...

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