An embryonic stem cell and an adult stem cell report topped today’s bioethics news. 
As for the embryonic stem cell news, Obama appointed bioethicist R. Alta Charo, a UW-Madison researcher and previous member of former President Bill Clinton’s Bioethics Advisory Commission, to his Health and Human Services team.  A proponent of embryonic stem cell research, Alta Charo [...]

[ABC] A terminally ill British teenager has won the right to die after she was taken to court by a hospital that wanted to force her to have a heart transplant.
Thirteen-year-old Hannah Jones has been in and out of hospital for most of the past 10 years, but now she has refused any more operations [...]

The Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS) is calling for provinces and territories to legally recognize advance care directives for minors who are very sick or dying.  In a position paper published last week the CPS states that: 
Medical and technological advances have resulted in higher survival rates in… children with complex health conditions, many of whom would not [...]

AUSTRALIA has rallied behind the German-born doctor at the centre of a heartless Immigration decision to deny him and his family residency because their son has Down syndrome.
Herald Sun readers and people across Australia moved by the plight of Dr Bernhard Moeller and his son, Lukas, have protested. Premier John Brumby yesterday joined the [...]