HOSPITALS MANIPULATE TV MEDICAL COVERAGE, CLAIMS JOURNALIST
Hospitals scrambling for patients and TV stations hungry for cheap and easy stories are creating "fake health news", complains a leading health reporter. Writing in...
South Korea to be leader in robot ethics
Although South Korea has still not recovered from the bioethics scandal of Hwang Woo-suks's faked cloning data and coercive egg donation, it is busy drawing...
NEUROSCIENCE COULD TRANSFORM CRIMINAL LAW
In recent years, the burning issues of bioethical debate have been related to euthanasia and various aspects of procreation, like IVF and embryonic stem cell...
THE COMPLEXITIES OF ABORTION
Two recent stories in the media reflect the difficulty of taking a consistent ethical stand on abortion rights. Susanne M. Sanchez, of Miami, Florida, wrote...
STEM CELLS — BOTH KINDS — HELP DISEASED MICE
A US study has found that both embryonic and adult stem cells protect mice against a neurogenerative disease. This is the first time, it was...
GENETIC ENGINEERING MAY BE LESS DISCRIMINATORY
A British bioethicist has come up with a novel argument in favour of genetic engineering: it is non-judgemental. Currently parents in the UK are only...
SOUTH CAROLINA’S SOLUTION TO ORGAN SHORTAGE
Legislators in South Carolina are mulling over a creative way of coping with the state's shortage of organ donors. A panel in its Senate has...
AUSTRALIAN EUTHANASIA ACTIVISTS FACE MURDER TRIAL
Two women in Sydney have been granted bail after a week in custody for the mercy killing of a former pilot. Shirley Justins, 58, and...
IN BRIEF: organ trading; medication errors; ADHD; egg donors
Organ trading: After a three year investigation, two California men have been charged with conspiracy and grand theft for stealing body parts from UCLA's cadaver...