Healthy patients deserve euthanasia, too, say Dutch doctors
Doctors should be allowed to kill patients who are "suffering through living", the Royal Dutch Medical Association has recommended after a three-year inquiry. It could...
US army doctors offer rationale for participation in torture
In the wake of allegations that Army health care professionals may have colluded in the ill-treatment of detainees in Guantanamo Bay and Iraq and Afghanistan,...
Some doctors “offensive” towards Down syndrome infants
Most doctors treat the birth of a Down syndrome baby as bad news when communicating a diagnosis to mothers, according to research from Harvard Medical...
Lobotomised Kennedy sister dies at 86
The oldest of the surviving siblings of US President John F. Kennedy, Rosemary, has died at the age of 86 in an institution in Wisconsin....
Brain harvesting procedures were ethical, says US institute
One of the best-known psychiatrists in the US has been embroiled in an informed consent controversy over harvesting brains from cadavers. Dr E. Fuller Torrey,...
Costa Rica’s unique ban on IVF under threat
American pro-abortion activists have launched a campaign to force the small Central American nation of Costa Rica to reverse its ban on IVF. Costa Rica...
Alabama man lives in coma for 23 years
An Alabama man who has lived in a persistent vegetative state for 23 years recently turned 50. Doctors believe that he could survive to the...
Muslim scholars debate therapeutic cloning
Muslim states are being asked to allow therapeutic cloning and to maintain a ban on the reproductive cloning in a draft of the first international...
ODD SPOT: Grandmothers overturn age-old conceptions
It's a bit early to vote for headline of the year, but BioEdge would like to nominate "Great-grandmother admits she's not pregnant", which ran on...
IN BRIEF: Ukraine; stem cells; horizon scanning
Ukraine: Despite the turmoil surrounding its recent presidential elections, the parliament of the Ukraine found time in mid-December to ban reproductive cloning.