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Adult Stem Cells Fix Broken Hearts

Posted on 17/02/2012 to
International News - Health | Stem Cells | United States |

A new US study in which patients had their hearts repaired with adult stem cells has brought regenerative treatments for heart attacks a step closer. The therapy, reported in

C of E Synod Rejects Assisted Suicide

Posted on 17/02/2012 to
International News - Assisted Suicide | Britain | Euthanasia |

In a debate on assisted suicide at the recent Church of England Synod, the Archbishop of Canterbury warned that changes to the law to allow assisted suicide would spell “disaster” and a

Study Examines Effects of Divorce on Children

Posted on 16/02/2012 to
International News - Family | United States |

In America alone, over a million children suffer the divorce of their parents every year. Divorce causes irreparable harm to all involved, but most especially to the children. Though it might be sh

Georgia Supreme Court Strikes Assisted Suicide Law

Posted on 15/02/2012 to
International News - Assisted Suicide | United States |

The Supreme Court of the US state of Georgia has struck down a law banning people from publicly advertising to help with assisted suicide. The unanimous decision puts the elderly and people with di

'Birth Tourists' to Hong Kong Double But 'One Child' Policy Pursues

Posted on 15/02/2012 to
International News - China | Family |
Op Ed News - China | Demography | Family |

The number of pregnant Chinese “birth-tourists” travelling to Hong Kong to have their children has more than doubled in the past 12 months, according to latest figures released last wee

Battle for Marriage Heads to US Supreme Court

Posted on 15/02/2012 to
International News - Catholic Church | Marriage | United States |
Op Ed News - Marriage |

Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan, president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, joined the bishops of California in denouncing the February 7 decision of a federal court rejecting the constit

Radical Proposals on Organ Donation

Posted on 13/02/2012 to
International News - Bioethics | Britain | Health |

The British Medical Association (BMA) has published a report laying out options to increase the supply of organs for transplant. Some of the options considered are highly controversial, including t

Placenta Stem Cells Offer Help to Brain Damaged Newborns

Posted on 13/02/2012 to
International News - Europe | Stem Cells |

Swiss scientists have reported that transplantation of human placenta-derived stem cells into the brains of neonatal rats with birth-related brain damage is possible, and that the donor cells can s

Dutch Mobile Euthanasia Unit Set For Launch

Posted on 10/02/2012 to
International News - Europe | Euthanasia |

Plans for an on-call euthanasia team to kill people in their homes have been given the go-ahead in Holland. The mobile unit will be dispatched when family doctors refuse to administer lethal drugs

Chemotherapy in Pregnancy Safe, Studies Suggest

Posted on 10/02/2012 to
International News - Europe | Health | Pregnancy |

Women diagnosed with cancer during pregnancy will no longer face the dilemma of whether to defer treatment to avoid harming their babies. A series of studies published in The Lancet and