Event: 11th World Congress of Bioethics International Association of Bioethics
June 26-29, 2012
Rotterdam
The Netherlands
Conference: Conference, The Future of Human Subjects Research Regulation
May 18 - May 19, 2012
Harvard Law School
Cambridge, MA
Conference: Ethics in Education in a Global Perspective
May 1-3, 2012
Pittsburgh, PA
Conference: Church and Society Commission, Conference of European Churches
Project in the field of Ethics, Science and Technology in particular Bioethics and Biotechnology
April 25-27, 2012
Brussels, Belgium
Conference: Genomics in Society: Facts, Fictions & Cultures
April 23-24, 2012
ESRC Genomics Network Conference British Library
London, England
Warning over online ’smart drugs’ that can kill
Doctors are warning that pressure to be young, beautiful, slim and clever, is driving a generation into buying illicit drugs online in the belief they are not ‘good enough’. (Telegraph)
Medical Tattoo Looks to Replace Bulky Devices
Gone may be the days of substantial and at times clunky medical objects like a hard metal pacemaker placed next to the heart or electrodes implanted within the brain. (ABC News)
Uzbekistan’s policy of secretly sterilising women
The BBC has been told by doctors that Uzbekistan is running a secret programme to sterilise women - and has talked to women sterilised without their knowledge or consent. (BBC News)
British sperm donor ‘fathered 600 children’
A British scientist may have fathered 600 children after making donations to a fertility programme he ran with his wife. And one of his biological children has suggested that the number may even be as high as one thousand. (The Sun)
Stem cell clinic that ‘preyed on the vulnerable’
For the incurably ill, it is a message of hope: for a fee of between £10,000 and £40,000, sufferers of illnesses such as heart disease, Parkinson’s, autism and cerebral palsy can buy themselves hope at Cells4health’s clinic. (Telegraph)
Stem-Cell Rules Go Unheeded
Three months after the Chinese health ministry ramped up its efforts to enforce a ban on the clinical use of unapproved stem-cell treatments, a Nature investigation reveals that businesses around the country are still charging patients thousands of dollars for these unproven therapies. (Scientific American)
Warning over medical implant attacks
Many medical implants are vulnerable to attacks that could threaten their users’ lives, according to studies. (BBC News)
Artificial heart keeps boy alive for record 251 days
A three-year-old boy has been kept alive with an artificial heart for more than eight months, which doctors say is a record for a child in the UK. (BBC News)
Organ donor’s surgery death sparks questions
Before dawn on her 57th birthday, Lorraine Hawks and her husband, Paul, piled into their brother-in-law Tim Wilson’s Lexus in Pelham, New Hampshire, with Lorraine and her sister Susie in the back seat and the men up front. As the two couples drove to the Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Massachusetts, Lorraine and Paul teased Tim mercilessly. (CNN)
Scientists rewrite rules of human reproduction
The first human egg cells that have been grown entirely in the laboratory from stem cells could be fertilised later this year in a development that will revolutionise fertility treatment and might even lead to a reversal of the menopause in older women. (The Independent)
Women cannot rewind the ‘biological clock’
Many women do not fully appreciate the consequences of delaying motherhood, and expect that assisted reproductive technologies can reverse their aged ovarian function, Yale researchers reported in a study published in a recent issue of Fertility and Sterility. (MedicalXpress)
