Digging in the murky past of IVF
Hi there, Another research scandal from the 1950s has been uncovered, this time in Canada. As Xavier Symons reports below, Native American children in boarding...
New evidence of unethical research on Canadian Indians
A controversial report in the journal Social History gives details of grossly unethical ‘nutritional research’ carried out on native Indian children in the 1940s and...
Savulescu proposes alternative to euthanasia
Julian Savulescu proposes a new way out: "voluntary palliated starvation" Many pro-euthanasia advocates in the UK are frustrated at the slow progress of campaigns for...
UK commission calls for action on abortion of disabled
A parliamentary commission into abortion based on disability has called for radical changes to the UK abortion law. A parliamentary commission into abortion based on...
Nitschke to run for Australian Senate
Euthanasia activist Dr Philip Nitschke is to run for a Senate seat in the Australian Capital Territory in the upcoming federal election. Euthanasia activist Dr...
Spread the love: a new principle for procreation in the age of IVF
Procreative beneficence must be supplemented with another concept, procreative altruism, argue two Oxford bioethicists Utilitarian notions of reproductive autonomy may not be as simple to...
GlaxoSmithKlein slammed for unethical drug trials in China
British pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKlein has been exposed for conducting unethical drug trials in its Shanghai office. In the midst of an investigation into corrupt operations...
Does the development of IVF have a murky past?
Was Patrick Steptoe, one of the famed creators of IVF, sensitive to research ethics? Robert Edwards (L) and Patrick Steptoe (R) announcing the birth of...