WHY DENY THE DEPRESSED THEIR RIGHT TO SUICIDE?
One of America's leading bioethics journals features a strong argument for assisted suicide for the mentally ill in its latest issue. Jacob M. Appel, a...
SUICIDE INCREASING WORLDWIDE
According to a feature on suicide in the Economist, the global suicide rate has risen by 60% over the past 45 years, with about one...
“MANIMALS” COULD BE NEXT STEP IN MEDICAL RESEARCH
"Manimals" are around the corner, according to the bioethics writer for the Washington Post and Slate, William Saletan. In an update on scientists' progress towards...
SCIENTISTS NEED HYBRIDS, SAYS LUTHERAN THEOLOGIAN
Nature has launched a new website dedicated to news and views about stem cells. "Our goal is enlighten and promote communication in stem cell research...
HYBRIDS HAVE A RIGHT TO LIVE, SAY CATHOLIC BISHOPS
Coming from a different angle, the Catholic bishops of England and Wales have told a parliamentary committee that human-animal hybrid embryos conceived in the laboratory...
VEGETATIVE STATE OFTEN MISDIAGNOSED
Doctors should use extreme caution in pulling the plug on patients in a vegetative state, according to reports presented at the European Neurological Society. Around...
HWANG TRYING TO RESTORE HIS REPUTATION
Working days, nights and weekends, with criminal charges hanging over his head, disgraced stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk is trying to climb the steep hill...
INDIAN DOCTORS CALL FOR MEDICAL ETHICS SYLLABUS
A recent scandal has brought to light the fact that most Indian doctors are not taught medical ethics. A doctor in Tamil Nadu allowed his...
IN BRIEF: uninhabited; public support; disasters
Uninhabited: What would happen if mankind were to vanish from Planet Earth? An answer is given in a new book by US journalist Alan Weisman,...