JAMA appoints new editor for new times
Last year, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) lost both its deputy editor and its editor. To rephrase Oscar Wilde’s quip: to lose...
Transwomen don’t belong in women’s sports, say scientists
Three Australian sports scientists have complained that women are being disadvantaged by the participation of transwomen in women’s sports. In two articles in the International...
The mists lift over a post-Roe landscape
This week the online magazine Politico published a leaked draft opinion from the US Supreme Court which would overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision...
Is euthanasia becoming a runaway train in Canada?
Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS) is a syndrome attributed to patients who complain of headaches, rashes, depression and dizziness and attribute them to chemicals in the...
Trans narrative under fire in Sweden
The Swedish national broadcaster SVT has produced a series of programs which are sceptical of transgender medicine. The latest, Transbarnen (The Trans Children), examines the...
Couple from Mali celebrates the first birthday of their nonuplets
The day after the leak of the US Supreme Court’s draft of a repudiation of Roe v. Wade, Mohammed VI Arby, Oumar Arby, Elhadji Arby,...
Will brainwashing make a comeback?
Imagine this scenario: the American military captures a fanatical soldier of the Islamic State who has been responsible for the deaths of several Americans. What...
Ohio doctor accused of 14 deaths acquitted
In 2019 BioEdge headlined a story: “34 elderly are dead. Why haven’t you read about it?”. A doctor at hospitals in Columbus, Ohio, William Husel,...
Surrogacy becomes a political issue in Australian federal election
Bioethics has been leaking into politics in the high-profile Sydney electorate of Warringah. Australia goes to the polls on May 21, with Liberal-National Party coalition...
Building the business of bundles of joy
Surrogacy, especially commercial surrogacy, is often criticised in BioEdge. So it’s only fair to give the surrogacy industry’s point of view from time to time....
Terry and Terri: can people recover from devastating brain injuries?
The New York Times recently ran an obituary of Terry Wallis, a 57-year-old Arkansas man who died in a rehabilitation facility on March 29. What...
How Denmark has become the solution to Belgium’s sperm donor drought
Belgium has a sperm donor shortage because it has abolished donor anonymity. This is leading women to use Danish sperm banks. According to recent media...