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PubMed1996

Genetics watchdog.

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PubMed1995

Genetics brought to book.

The British House of Commons has produced a telling document on the future of genetics.

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The power to choose.

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PubMed2005

No country is an island: comment on the House of Commons report Human Reproductive Technologies and the Law.

In its recent report Human Reproductive Technologies and the Law, the House of Commons' Select Committee on Science and Technology insisted that the United Kingdom 'does not take a purely insular view' on sex selection but to carefully consider the impact on other countries before allowing changes to current legislation. True, no country is an island, not even the British Isles. Still, outlawing a harmless practice in Great Britain because of its alleged harmful effects in other countries is bad public policy.

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Consultation on Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act.

Following the review of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act by the House of Commons select committee on science and technology (see Bulletin 208), the Department of Health issued a consultation paper on its proposals to change the law. Although the consultation period will be over before this issue is published, it seems worth reprinting the summary of the paper to record the department's thinking on a variety of issues.

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PubMed2005

Human reproductive technologies and the law: a select committee report.

The House of Commons Science & Technology Committee has reviewed the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act. It considered a) the balance between legislation, regulation and reproductive freedom; b) the role of Parliament in human reproductive technologies; and c) the foundation, adequacy and appropriateness of the ethical framework for legislation. It also considered the Act itself and the workings of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. Its report is written from a very liberal perspective, but is a very thorough overview of current issues and debate in the field. There follow, slightly abridged, the conclusions and recommendations of the 200-page report.

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PubMed2003

The work of the Medical Research Council.

The above committee is one of Parliament's select committees that undertake enquiries of considerable depth in their particular fields. Its latest enquiry looked at the MRC in general, and also specifically at how it is handling the Biobank project. Its general findings are scathing of the MRC's performance and mismanagement of its funds, concluding that 'the anger of the research community at MRC's funding problems is not only understandable but entirely justified.' The following are the committee's conclusions and recommendations on Biobank--the collection of blood samples, lifestyle details and medical histories from 500,000 middle-aged Britons, and its general conclusions.

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