Major US doctors group opposes physician-assisted suicide
The American College of Physicians, the second-largest physician group in the US, sends a resounding No.The American College of Physicians, the second-largest physician group in...
Bioethicists: get rich quick!
Apply for the Dan David prizeBioethics is a career in which financial rewards do not figure prominently. However, if you have made significant contributions to...
British childbirth doctors back decriminalised abortion
Now three major medical lobby groups support itThe professional body representing British obstetricians and gynaecologists has chosen to support the decriminalisation of abortion. The ruling...
Is a defence of female genital cutting possible?
Absolutist notions of human rights must be tempered by respect for cultural traditions, says German ethicistFemale genital mutilation (or circumcision, or cutting) is reviled as...
Spanish researcher snagged in stem cell research fraud
Five papers have been retracted; one is in doubtThe biggest-ever fraud in Spanish science is coming to light – and like other recent frauds, it...
5% of Japanese babies from IVF
With the birth rate so low, the government is grasping at strawsThe latest figures show that 1 in 20 Japanese babies born in 2015 began...
20 years of assisted suicide in Oregon
The main reason for requesting aid in dying, overwhelmingly, is lack of autonomyOregon’s Death With Dignity Act (DWDA) is the benchmark for proposals for assisted...
Assisted suicide debated in Australia
Two states introduced bills this weekWhile currently overshadowed by an even more contentious debate over same-sex marriage, proposals for legalising assisted suicide are bubbling away...
How far does a right to a child extend?
What happens when a commissioning parent is manifestly incapable of parenting?Photo by KEVIN SULLIVAN / Orange County Register Another instalment in the Reproductive Revolution, this...
A Nobel Prize for bioethics?
There is a gap in the Nobel Prizes: there's no award for bioethics. There is the Nobel Peace Prize and the Nobel Prize for Medicine...