Indian bioethics
Hi there, A musical about euthanasia? When I first heard the news, I thought the director was trying to upstage Mel Brooks’s slapstick comedy The...
Steep rise in official Dutch euthanasia
Committees overworked. An English translation of the government report on 2009 euthanasia cases in the Netherlands has been released. It includes the statistics about reported...
Plastinated bodies to be sold on internet
Gunther von Hagens at it again. After commercialising the human body with lurid exhibitions of plastinated corpses, the controversial German anatomist Gunther von Hagens has...
Euthanasia: the musical
But everything in Bollywood is musical It had to happen: a musical about euthanasia. Of course, nearly every film coming out of Bollywood is...
Is activists’ favourite suicide drug “torturous”?
Controversy over Oklahoma execution It is unlikely to derail activists, but the drug of choice for assisted suicide activists is being described as “untested, [and]...
New Zealand shocked over do-not-resuscitate orders
Doctors too casual New Zealanders have been outraged by the news that at least two patients at a small government hospital in the city of...
Suicide pact dilemma
Sisters hinder ambulance officers reviving their parents Here's a modern moral dilemma for you. You pay a visit to your aged parents and find them...
“Gene-whiz” science faces criticism
The latest gene of the week: liberalism The notion that our behaviour is largely due to our genes is immensely popular with the media, and...
More IVF not always better
More treatments doesn’t equal better results More IVF doesn’t necessarily mean more success, experts say. New research suggests that around 1 in 3 women had...
Mandatory reporting erodes doctors’ rights: Australian academic
Australian academic slams mandatory reporting laws A prominent Australian doctor has criticised mandatory reporting laws, saying that they damage the right of her colleagues to...
Canadian researchers turn adult human skin cells directly to blood cells
Researchers dodge tumour risk Canadian scientists have morphed human skin cells into blood cells, converting one kind of mature human cell into another for the...
Painkillers in pregnancy linked to infertility in sons
Research highlights alarming link to infertility A recent study has caused concern that using painkillers in pregnancy may have cause male fertility problems. Researchers found...