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Michael Cook | 18 May 2013 |
tags: breast cancer gene, prophylatic mastectomy
Hollywood celebrity Angelina Jolie was hailed this week for her bravery in revealing that she has had a preventative double mastectomy.

Michael Cook | 18 May 2013 |
tags: DSM-5, psychiatry
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) goes on sale on May 22 after more than a decade of revision by 1,500 experts.

Xavier Symons | 18 May 2013 |
tags: cloning, embryonic stem cells
Cloning humans might be one step closer, with scientists in the US managing to use adult skin cells to produce an embryo clone.

Michael Cook | 18 May 2013 |
tags: bioethics
Is bioethics compatible with democracy? This is not a question that surfaces very often in policy debates featuring prestigious bioethicists. However, in a provocative column in The Guardian, Nathan Emmerich, a young bioethicist, asks whether bioethicists are turning into a priestly caste:

Michael Cook | 18 May 2013 |
tags: castration, mutilation
The German and Czech governments allow sex offenders to be surgically castrated – provided that they give informed consent to the procedure. This has put them at loggerheads with the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT). It has denounced the practice as degrading treatment which should be ended immediately.

Xavier Symons | 18 May 2013 |
tags: discrimination, IVF, same-sex parenting
A new bill is before the South Australian parliament that would make IVF available to lesbian couples and fertile single mothers

Xavier Symons | 18 May 2013 |
tags: fraud, surrogacy
A Californian women has been sentenced to 5 years imprisonment after she misappropriated US$2.5 million from a surrogacy company. Tonya Ann Collins, 37, set up the company Surrogenesis in 2005, along with the escrow company Michael Charles Independent Financial Holding Group.

Xavier Symons | 18 May 2013 |
tags: disability, surrogacy
A complex custody dispute has come before an Israeli court, raising questions about the limits of legal parenthood as well as the rights of parents with disabilities. A disabled woman is taking state social services to court after being denied custody of a child she had conceived by surrogacy.

Michael Cook | 11 May 2013 |
tags: Guantanamo Bay, hunger strike, informed consent
Of the 166 detainees at Guantanamo Bay, about 100 are on a hunger strike. About 20 are being force-fed, according to the New York Times. About 40 medical staff have arrived to ensure that the detainees are fed.

Michael Cook | 11 May 2013 |
tags: abortion, gendercide, Georgia, sex ratio
India and China are not the only countries with lop-sided sex ratios due to sex-selective abortions. Georgia, a former member of the USSR in the Caucasus with a population of about 4.5 million, has a distorted sex ratio at birth of 114 boys to 100 girls

Michael Cook | 11 May 2013 |
tags: Belgium, euthanasia
Euthanasia claimed its most famous victim last Saturday. At the age of 95, Belgian Nobel laureate Christian de Duve was killed with a lethal injection. He died in his home, surrounded by his four children.

Michael Cook | 11 May 2013 |
tags: organ markets
Two German economists have published in Science the results of an economic experiment which supports a pessimistic view of organ markets.

Michael Cook | 11 May 2013 |
tags: book reviews, IVF, surrogacy
Journalist Miriam Zoll has just released a personal account of her involuntary involvement with the reproductive technology industry, Cracked Open.

Xavier Symons | 10 May 2013 |
tags: Australia, wrongful birth
The concept of 'wrongful birth' has suffered another defeat, this time in Australia.

Xavier Symons | 10 May 2013 |
tags: IVF, Poland
Poland's Justice Minster was sacked this week after accusing German scientists of importing Polish embryos for experiments.



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