American Medical Association spurns assisted suicide proposals
The American Medical Association has resisted a push to adopt a position of neutrality on assisted suicide and euthanasia. In its interim meeting earlier this...
Sudan: indifference kills
The eyes of the world are on Gaza, where some 15,000 Palestinians have been killed in the in Israel’s response to the Hamas terror attack...
How should doctors approach the war in Gaza?
“Do leaders in health care have any responsibilities to speak out, as health professionals, about the Israel-Hamas war?” asks an op-ed in JAMA. Yes, says...
Eleanor Rigbys are everywhere, says WHO
The World Health Organization has added loneliness to its long list of priority health areas. “High rates of social isolation and loneliness around the world...
Gambling with health
The world-wide growth of the gambling industry should worry public health authorities, says The Lancet. Taking advantage of the celebration of Safer Gambling Week in...
Finnish psychiatrist highlights the dangers of gender-affirmative care for children
Aspects of the gender affirmation model followed by American physicians have failed, are not evidence-based, and are “extremely unethical”, a Finnish expert in gender medicine...
Canadian psychiatrists defend euthanasia for mental illness
Debate in Canada over the upcoming inclusion of mental illness as a reason for medical aid in dying is heating up. A powerful editorial in...
Former deputy editor of BioEdge to head Sydney bioethics centre
The former deputy editor of BioEdge has been appointed director of a bioethics think tank in Australia. Dr Xavier Symons, who is currently a Postdoctoral...
The medical profession needs to reflect on the crimes of Nazi doctors, says The Lancet
Medical ethics education must be informed by a robust understanding of medicine’s role within the Nazi regime, according to a new report from The Lancet...
One way to escape malpractice lawsuits: euthanise the patient
A French woman who was suffering agonies after doctors implanted vaginal mesh has died of euthanasia in Belgium. In 2019 a woman named Élodie was...
Waste not, want not: Serbian surgeon wants to perform genitalia swaps in New York hospital
Urologist Miroslav Djordjevic, one of the world’s leading sex-reassignment surgeons, has a nightmare and a dream when he thinks about the estimated 1.5 million transgender...
Does The Pill make women more fearful and anxious?
More than 150 million women worldwide use oral contraceptives. Combined OCs (COCs), made up of synthetic hormones, are the most common. Sex hormones are also...