Happy Easter
April 2, 2010 Hi there, This week’s and next week’s issues of BioEdge will be a bit shorter than usual because of the Easter holiday...
Euthanasia underground surfaces in New Zealand
Advocates at odds A police investigation in New Zealand has uncovered what appears to be an international euthanasia underground. In August 2007 a depressed woman...
Harvard eggs going for US$35,000
Study in The Hastings Center ReportWould-be IVF parents are willing to pay as much as US$50,000 for eggs from prestigious universities, according to a study...
Can neuroscience be both ethical and rich?
John Horgan complains about lack of ethics In nearly any medical research, there’s a buck to be made somewhere. This is also true of the...
BRCA gene patent struck down
Case will be appealed In a landmark decision, a Federal judge in the US has struck down patents linked to the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes...
Canadian docs cut the Gordian knot of euthanasia
Just drop the word The editors of the Canadian Medical Association Journal have proposed a new way to tackle the noisy euthanasia debate in their...
Should animals have assisted suicide, too?
Gorilla video from The Onion Just as a bit of...
Leading German doctor backs assisted suicide
Book just published Should Germany shake off its scruples about assisted suicide? Der Spiegel pursued this sensitive question in a recent interview with Dr Michael...
Gendered again
New South Wales government reverses its decision Sorry, we missed this one: the world’s first officially genderless person has a gender again. Norrie, a 48-year-old...