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Israel Not Doing Euthanasia by Machine

This story in the Telegraph is stupid. Israel has passed a law permitting life support to be terminated. That isn’t euthanasia as it is now commonly understood: It is ending unwanted life-sustaining treatment.I am not criticizing Jewish law, but the legal analysis engaged in by the Israeli . . . . Continue Reading »

Read This Interview

MIT Associate Professor James Sherley has much to say in this interview about cloning, adult stem cell research and, in my view, one of the great unreported stories of our time: the fact that so many scientists feel that if they come out against cloning they will be branded anti-science and face . . . . Continue Reading »

Hwang Story Gets Weirder and Weirder

First we had the case of the sold eggs that were supposedly donated. Then, American researchers back away from Hwang’s cloned embryonic stem cell banking scheme. Then, one of his female scientists mysteriously disappears. Then, high school girls in Korea volunteer to donate eggs, as cloning . . . . Continue Reading »

This Makes Sense to Me

A medical study has concluded that “in-home hospitalization” for the elderly can be both beneficial and cost effective. From the study itself: “Hospital-at-home care was feasible and efficacious in delivering hospital-level care to patients at home. In 2 of 3 sites studied, 69% of . . . . Continue Reading »

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