Do you support mandatory euthanasia? Yeah, OK.
Hi there, This job has an occupational hazard: watching YouTube videos. The excuse is finding entertaining clips which illustrate some point or other. I’m afraid...
Conscientious objection: the struggle continues
The fight over conscientious objection to abortion has moved from the evening news to the academic journals. The fight over conscientious objection to abortion has...
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the most impactuous of all?
Which is the most influential journal in bioethics? Which is the most influential journal in bioethics? According to the latest ranking in Google Scholar, the...
Urine-derived stem cells used to grow teeth
A recent study published by American stem cell scientists says that a promising new source of stem cells is urine.A recent study published by American...
Academics spar over non-embryonic stem cell research
A number of leading researchers gave interviews or wrote articles about the disputed potential of Very Small Embryonic Stem Cells (VSELs).A controversy in the stem-cell...
Doctors in court: palliative care in Sweden
Two Swedish bioethicists have called for law reform to protect palliative care doctors in the Journal of Medical Ethics. Two Swedish bioethicists have called for...
Doctors in court: medical error in Germany
The German medical community is in uproar over the controversial manslaughter conviction of a junior doctor in Biebefield The BJM last week reported on the...
An early progenitor of IVF?
“The strange tale of how 500 women were helped to conceive after the first world war”. The Spectator (UK) is describing it as “The strange...
Falconer assisted suicide bill is unsafe, say British Lords
A British group called Living and Dying Well, composed mostly of members of the House of Lords has produced a stern rebuttal of claims that...