Is drug addiction an illness?
Most of us have an ambivalent attitude towards drug addicts. Can they stop? No, their will power is shot to pieces. Will you invite one...
Are drug addicts responsible or helpless victims of an illness?
The Massachusetts Supreme Court could decideWho is responsible for drug addiction: your brain or you? This momentous question will be decided in the Massachusetts Supreme...
Medical staff punished after privacy breach in Pennsylvania hospital
Staff were sharing photos on their smartphones Respect for patients’ privacy is a work in progress, to judge from an incident in UPMC Bedford Memorial...
Medical aid urgently needed in Myanmar
The Lancet called this week for humanitarian support to be “urgently deployed" in Myanmar. The persecution of the Rohingya population in Myanmar has a decades...
US Congress ponders assisted suicide
Opponents are trying to drum up support for a resolutionA resolution condemning assisted suicide has been introduced into the US House of Representatives. Both sides...
40 years after, Scottish mother still mourns the son a hospital stole from her
Body used for tissue samples or organsForty years later, a Scottish mother is still mourning her son who died at 7 days. The death of...
Costa Rica becoming hub for global organ trafficking
Four doctors on trial A doctor being arrested in 2013 / The Costa Rica Star A trial of four doctors and their accomplices in Costa...
Coma victims, PVS patients, and waking the dead
Is a PVS patient really gone forever? A 35-year-old man who had been in a vegetative state for 15 years after a car accident has...
Organ donation and recipient information
Bioethicists are getting resourceful in their search to solve the organ donation crisis. How can we solve the shortage of organ donors? Clearly there’s no...
Ireland to vote on abortion in 2018
Ireland will soon vote on its controversial constitutional abortion restrictions. Ireland will vote in 2018 on whether to keep its controversial constitutional abortion restrictions, which...
When a ‘good death’ was often painful
Until the 19th century, pain was accepted as a normal part of dyingEdvard Munch, The Dead Mother and Child, 1897-9 Today, a primary goal of both...