CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS IN AMERICAN MEDICINE
Nearly 100 million Americans are at risk of being denied "legal medical interventions" by religious doctors, according to a feature article in the New England...
MENTALLY ILL DESERVE THE RIGHT TO SUICIDE, SAYS SWISS COURT
Switzerland's highest court has ruled that mentally ill people should be allowed to ask doctors to kill them. "It must be recognised that an incurable,...
LINGUISTIC MUDDLE OVER OREGON LAW
Shakespeare called it "self-slaughter". Oregon bureaucrats call it "participation in the Death with Dignity Act". It's tough finding a word to describe suicide which appeals...
EGG PAYMENT TO GET GREEN LIGHT IN UK
The UK's fertility authority is expected later this week to give a green light for researchers to pay women ?250 for their eggs. Donors will...
WARNING OF SIDE-EFFECTS OF FERTILITY DRUGS
At the same time, an article in the journal Thrombosis and Thrombolysis has warned of a possible increase in side effects of fertility drugs, including...
ANTHROPOLOGISTS FACE DILEMMA OVER TASMANIAN BONES
The descendants of the Aboriginal people of Australia's island state of Tasmania are used to dealing with museums. Their ancestors' bones are treated as a...
GERMAN BIOETHICIST DEFENDS SEX SELECTION FOR WESTERNERS
Although medical sex selection for genetic diseases has a halo of respectability amongst practitioners of reproductive medicine, social sex selection is far more controversial. In...
IN BRIEF: vasectomies, fibs, stem cells
Vasectomies: Vasectomies may increase the risk of a debilitating brain disease, primary progressive aphasia, according to an article in the journal Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology....