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Today's issue of Science includes a publication by researchers at the Heinrich Pette Institute for Experimental Virology and Immunology...

Two new studies ( CDC and Slone ), published in the June 28, 2007 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, examine whether or not SSRI...

"What strikes you as the oddest feature of your experience, so far?" I considered. "There's so much—" "Migh...

Advanced Cell Technology (ACT) announced in Nature Magazine in August of 2006 that they were creating embryonic stem cell lines from biopsie...

China Central Television (CCTV) is reporting that US researchers (Shoukhrat Mitalipov of the Oregon National Primate Research Center) in t...

Well, as expected , Bush has vetoed the recently passed measure lifting the restrictions on human embyronic stem cell research. As the N...

Over on MSNBC, Art Caplan writes about news outlets going gaga over megamultiples , and forgetting to report the downsides: One of the bigg...

An interesting paper looking at the potential fate of the nation's hundreds of thousands of frozen embryos will show up Thursday on the ...

The NYTimes reports that the makers of Trojan condoms have developed a new marketing campaign called "Evolve." The message is al...

I hate when the media proclaims, “They’ll have to rewrite the textbooks.” It’s easy for them to say. They don’t do it. I do. That phrase...

In his latest op-ed column (below), conservative David Brooks overstates the case that everyone is looking to upgrade their future off-sprin...

David Jensen notes in California Stem Cell Reports that the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), the agency which manages...

As is being reported, well, everywhere, Nature has made the decision, after review, to retract a figure used in a highly cited 2002 study ...

Our friend Andrea Kalfoglou writes: Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB), was founded in 1992 at the Inaugral Congress of the Internationa...

With a vote of 247/176/10, the House has voted to pass the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2007. The breakdown is about as you would ...

The big science news of the day -- and maybe the year -- is that researchers have, in mice, managed to transform skin cells into what seem t...

A wealthy US donor has given British scientists $8 million to further research on using embryonic stem cells to treat macular degeneration r...

Tuberculosis has a strange history. It is an ancient disease: Hippocrates long ago identified phthisis , the Greek term for tuberculosis, as...

Yet another state getting into stem cells! Two mutually exclusive constitutional amendments , both of which might pass... The Florida Supre...

We have written before about Stanford banning even small gifts from pharma reps, the influence gifts have , and the JAMA article and recom...

April 1st seems to be few months late this year; the Dutch reality television show that some of us got opinionated on , The Big Donor, aire...

Art Caplan writes at MSNBC: The last time I saw Jack Kevorkian was April 23, 1994, in a courtroom in Pontiac, Michigan. Oakland County pr...

Be on the look out for an upcoming article in the June issue of the American Sociological Review by US Sociologist Rene Almeling. Her comp...

Jim Fossett brought to my attention that yet another state, Maryland, is getting into the stem cell business .

Karama Neal sent along some great links about the Bioethics Quilt Project by Muhjah Shakir, assistant professor of occupational therapy and ...

For a time, Georgia was poised to become the latest state to require preteen girls to be vaccinated against a virus that causes cervical can...

Several people have pointed out an email sent out by Stephen Bennett of Concerned Women for America , which clearly says that what matters i...

The California Supreme Court cleared the way for the state's stem cell research agency to distribute billions of dollars in grants Wedn...

Jim Fossett and Sam Berger of the Center for American Progress debate the future of national stem cell policy at the Hastings Center blog. S...

China's former top drug regulator was sentenced to death Tuesday in an unusually harsh punishment for taking bribes to approve substand...

The only claim more medically ridiculous than a Lindsay Lohan or a Britney Spears announcing defeat over substance abuse after a month-long ...

In a display of truly questionable ethics that I would only expect from American reality television, a Dutch reality TV show is set to pre...

New Abortion Bill To Require Fetal Consent

Imagine experiencing infertility, and then finding out that you are pregnant -- with triplets! Doctors then recommend that you reduce the p...

The AP is reporting that it took 2 hours and 10 jabs before Ohio prison staff were able to insert shunts to deliver a lethal cocktail to in...

Despite the criticisms by the Red Cross, America's Blood Centers, the international blood association AABB, and other blood advocate gro...

Good news for frequent flyers heading east: Viagra appears to offset jetlag . Sadly, it seems to have no effect - at least on jetlag - for t...

It's no secret that drug companies have been using the prescription records of physicians in order to better "educate" doctors...

Over on MSNBC, Art Caplan continues to talk about the tell tale heart -in-a-box machine, noting that although macabre, this advance could b...