- Perry pledges pro-life Veep
- Federal judge blocks new Texas abortion law
- Patients given HIV-infected organs during transplants
- Bioethics commission rules Guatemalan STD research unethical
- Canada warns not to buy 'fresh' semen online
 Image by eschipul via Flickr Posted: 31 Aug 2011 08:17 AM PDT Surging Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry, the Texas governor, has pledged to influential Christian leaders that he will push pro-life policies, oppose gay marriage, and pick cabinet officials and a vice president who share his values, a promise that would rule out a Perry-Rudy Giuliani ticket. |
| Federal judge blocks new Texas abortion law Posted: 31 Aug 2011 06:42 AM PDT An Austin federal judge has blocked a controversial Texas law, due to take effect in September, that would have required doctors to display sonogram images to women seeking abortions and would have required a woman to hear a detailed description of her baby. |
| Patients given HIV-infected organs during transplants
Posted: 31 Aug 2011 06:34 AM PDT One of Taiwan’s best hospitals has admitted that organs infected with HIV were mistakenly transplanted into 5 patients after a hospital worker misheard the donor’s test results by telephone. The staffer heard “non-reactive” instead of “reactive”. The transplants were not double-checked, and the patients are likely to contract HIV. |
| Bioethics commission rules Guatemalan STD research unethical Posted: 31 Aug 2011 06:32 AM PDT
US researchers violated ethical boundaries when they deliberately infected Guatemalan prisoners, mental health patients and prostitutes with sexually transmitted diseases in a 1940s research project, a presidential commission concluded on Tuesday. |
| Canada warns not to buy 'fresh' semen online
Posted: 31 Aug 2011 06:32 AM PDT Canada's health agency on Tuesday warned would-be parents not to purchase "fresh" semen online, saying it may be tainted with infectious diseases. |
