The neuroscience of journalistic standards
Hi there, I feel twinges of conscience when writing about bioethical skulduggery. How well do I stack up? There is such a thing as journalistic...
“Never say die”: the surgeon’s motto?
‘When the patient of an internist dies, his colleagues ask, “What happened?,” when the patient of a surgeon dies, his colleagues ask, “What did you...
HIV+ women in Namibia sterilised without consent
Three HIV-positive women in Namibia have been awarded damages after a court found that they had been sterilized without their consent. Three HIV-positive women in...
A malaria vaccine could make the disease worse
So much money invested in a cure for cancer; so little into a cure for malaria. This is the scenario which is sometimes used as...
Startling admissions in IVF journal
Some IVF patients are being offered risky, unsafe techniques which have not been developed ethically and which offer dubious benefits, according to an extraordinary article...
Russian billionaire offers immortality by 2045
The dream of achieving biological immortality may have taken a big step forward. A 31-year-old Russian billionaire, Dmitry Itskov, claims that his research team will...