New experiments with mice could lead to break-through treatments for human disease?while avoiding the ethical problem of embryonic stem cell research.
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August 14th, 2009
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August 14th, 2009
A senior archbishop has called on Catholics to do their utmost to try to prevent the laws forbidding assisted suicide from being watered down. Archbishop Peter Smith of Cardiff said sick and disabled people would come under pressure to kill themselves if the law on assisted suicide was relaxed following a landmark House of Lords ruling.
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August 14th, 2009
The Federal Republic of Germany is a democracy. It is no fun, however, to be a Baptist in Germany. For the past two decades, the German authorities have been clamping down on Baptists who want to raise their children in accordance with their own religious principles.
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August 14th, 2009
Christian pupils are now outnumbered by Muslims at Roman Catholic schools in some parts of England.
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August 13th, 2009
Patient Concern has accused the BMA of using 'misinformation' in the debate about introducing presumed consent for organ donation.
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August 13th, 2009
The recent ruling by the law lords in the case of Debbie Purdy has re-ignited the debate over assisted suicide.
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August 13th, 2009
Catholic Church leaders have told a parliamentary committee it was "ironic" that Tasmania was on one hand trying to deal with a rising suicide rate and on the other considering the legalisation of euthanasia.
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August 13th, 2009
Fewer children are drinking but those who do are consuming more than ever before, a charity has warned.
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August 13th, 2009
During the past few months, the campaign to permit assisted suicide has been steadily ratcheted up. There has been a stream of stories about people travelling to the grisly Dignitas euthanasia 'clinic' in Switzerland to be killed, the most recent of whom were the conductor Sir Edward Downes and his wife.
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August 13th, 2009
It?s hard not to notice that many of the most vocal ObamaCare protesters are senior citizens. And senior citizens remain the largest challenge for ObamaCare. Not in political terms, but in terms of resource management. Senior citizens are likelier to require medical care than younger workers, and contribute little or nothing to the system. From the perspective of socialized medicine it becomes all too easy to contemplate ?cutting the waste? by reducing the care given to senior citizens, the disabled, infants with birth defects, the mentally retarded and anyone else who fails the system?s ?Productivity in Practice or Potential? test.