Foetal engineering
Hi there, Bioethicist Alice Dreger and colleagues have uncovered extensive off-label use of Dexamethasone, a synthetic steroid, to intentionally engineer the development of fetuses for...
Chinese police arrest 127 in organ trafficking bust
Chinese police have arrested 137 people, including 18 doctors, in the latest crackdown on human organ trafficking.Chinese police have arrested 137 people, including 18 doctors,...
Savulescu defends Olympic doping
Oxford bioethicist Julian Savulescu has certainly won a lot of media exposure during the Olympic Games. He is a strong supporter of scrapping the zero-tolerance...
Dangerous experiment in foetal engineering alleged
A new paper just published in the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry uses extensive Freedom of Information Act findings to detail troubling off-label prescription in the...
US egg donation industry often ignores ethical standards, report claims
Many on-line human egg brokers do not adhere to ethical guidelines drawn up by the peak IVF body in the US, a survey published in...
Australian judge defines “conception” in surrogacy case
A judge in Brisbane, Australia, may have notched up a world first by defining the word "conception". A judge in Brisbane, Australia, may have notched...
German government wrangling over assisted suicide
A close friend should be allowed to help someone commit suicide, says the German Justice Minister, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger.A close friend should be allowed to help...
American sailor jailed over assisted suicide
Google "assisted suicide" on Google News and you can scroll through a number of current cases which have been discribed as "assisted suicide" or "mercy...