Is Planned Parenthood a Nobel Prize candidate?
Planned Parenthood is an organisation which inspires both love and loathing. One of its admirers is the Lasker Foundation, which has just presented it with the Lasker~Bloomberg...
Planned Parenthood wins prestigious Lasker Award
For services to reproductive health Planned Parenthood, the world-wide foundation for promoting reproductive health care and sex education, has won the 2017 Lasker~Bloomberg Public Service...
Is fear of being a burden a good reason for assisted suicide?
A British ethicist says No. In Oregon, 48.9% of patients who ended their lives under the state’s assisted suicide act said that fear of being...
Russian babies swapped at birth
A heart-breaking story of maternal lossZoya's daughters Lucia (L) and Ekaterina. Picture: Zoya Tuganova The theme of babies swapped at birth is probably more common...
US jails: doctors should support compassionate release, say ethicists
What about the human dignity of prisoners?Compassion release of prisoners who are suffering from terminal illnesses or dementia is a controversial topic in the United...
Survey: most Americans support editing the human genome
Religion and knowledge about the technology determine what people thinkIn early August 2017, an international team of scientists announced they had successfully edited the DNA...
Assisted suicide push fails in New York
A New York Court has reaffirmed the State's ban on assisted suicide. A New York Court has rejected a petition by three terminally ill patients...
Is Jahi McMath alive?
A legal battle over an allegedly brain-dead American teenager is set to continue. A legal battle over an allegedly brain-dead American teenager is set to...
First anti-ageing drugs ready for trial
Scientists are developing powerful drugs to stop ageing. Scientists may soon trial a new class of drugs that specifically aim to delay or treat ageing....
Compromise on APA torture paper
But the fallout from the Hoffman Report continues. A controversial paper on the American Psychological Association’s involvement in post-9/11 torture has been republished in the...