Debate over controversial new heart donor rule for children
When is a child really dead? Heart surgeons at Denver Children’s Hospital have found a way to increase the supply of hearts for children who...
The stem cell curse: more faked papers, unethical research
Austrian researchers under fire for trials with adult stem cells Is it their novelty? Is it their potential profitability? Or is it a Wagnerian doom...
And another scandal in Bulgaria
The entire board of Sofia's university hospital has been sackedAnd, in Bulgaria, even more stem cell Götterdämmerung. The entire board of Sofia's university hospital has...
Nordic sperm imports banned in US
Distressed women can’t access Viking spermSome American women are unhappy because the US Food and Drug Administration has banned the importation of foreign sperm to...
Pro-choice and pro-euthanasia groups list their enemies
Comprehensive list of "Medical Right" villains now available Nowhere is bioethics more politicised than in the United States. A pro-abortion group, the Religious Coalition for...
What if women knew all about stem cell research?
Surprising findings from focus groupsWherever human embryonic stem cell research is debated, newspaper surveys purport to show that a majority support it. However, because most...
Are Californian health priorities askew?
US$8 billion needed for prison health care system, says official A lot of academic bioethics deals with allocation of health priorities. Nowhere is there a...
Will IVF raise fertility in ageing societies?
Now that birth rates in most developed nations, with the exception of theUnited States, are below replacement level, policy wonks everywhere are graspingfor ways to...