Bright ideas week
Hi there, This week’s theme seems to be “surprising proposals”. That’s just the way it happened as we pulled the newsletter together. Perhaps the production...
Should obesity be stigmatized?
Arguing that obesity "may be the most difficult and elusive public health problem the United States has ever encountered" and that anti-obesity efforts have made...
Hurry up and die, Japan’s finance minister tells elderly
The year is barely a month old, but BioEdge is already sure who will win the annual “Foot in Mouth Award”: Japan’s finance minister Taro...
The ultimate surrogate adventure challenge: gestating a Neanderthal
It was the headline which flew ‘round the world: Harvard prof seeks mom for cloned Neanderthal.It was the headline which flew ‘round the world: Harvard...
Men more likely than women to commit scientific fraud
Male scientists are far more likely to commit fraud than females, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine have claimed. And there is no difference...
US doctors back routine screening for “reproductive coercion”
Doctors should routinely screen women and teenagers for “reproductive coercion”, says a committee of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Doctors should routinely screen...
A surprise bioethics best-seller for 2013?
Here’s a New Year’s prediction. The world’s biggest-selling bioethics book this year will not be written by anyone from the University of Pennsylvania, Oxford, Harvard...