The Trump administration announced it is limiting the use of fetal tissue for research purposes. The Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement Wednesday that it ended a contract ...

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson on Thursday defended his past use of tissue from aborted fetuses for medical research even as he continued to criticize Planned Parenthood. The retired ...

The recent controversy over Planned Parenthood has drawn new attention to the use of fetal tissue for medical research, a decades-old practice that remains common in some fields even as ...

The use of fetal cells and tissues is not an income-producing practice. A federal law prohibits tissue sale for profit. The cost of preserving and processing fetal cells and tissues is comparable ...

The Department of Health and Human Services says it is reviewing all medical research involving human fetal tissue. HHS said this week that it will conduct an audit of "all acquisitions involving ...

The decision reverses Trump administration rules and allows scientists to use tissue derived from elective abortions to develop treatments for diseases including cancer and AIDS. By Apoorva ...