Doctors slow to blow whistle
A lawsuit against the medical products giant Johnson & Johnson has raised questions about doctors’ willingness to warn colleagues and patients about bad drugs or...
German minister for education and research loses job in plagiarism scandal
To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, losing one minister because he plagiarised his PhD thesis is a misforture; losing two looks like carelessness. But this is what...
Inside the “fortress of death”
Dr Gunther von Hagens and his controversial Body Worlds exhibitions of plasticised human bodies and body parts have been out of the news for a...
French doctors endorse euthanasia
France’s peak medical body, the Conseil national de l'ordre des médecins (CNOM, the national council of the college of physicians) has endorsed euthanasia. This marks...
German sperm donor children gain right to know fathers
A German court has ruled that sperm donor children have a right to know the identity of their biological fathers. "The interest of the...