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Italy passes controversial end-of-life bill
Voluntarily stopping eating and drinking becomes legal in Italy After 30 years and 3000 attempts to propose amendments, an end-of-life bill was passed by the...
A transplant surgeon’s autograph book
Not the best of ideas to brand a patient’s liver with your initials A renowned British transplant surgeon has pleaded guilty to assault after he...
Utility or happiness? A case study from Detroit
Is a cataract operation on a dying man worth the candle? Here’s an interesting case which illustrated the difference between health care in the US...
Adverse IVF incidents rise in UK: report
The first ‘state of the sector’ report since the HFEA was formed 27 years agoThe UK’s fertility regulator, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, has...
Is infertility a disease?
A condition with many causes, not all of them health-related In a very interesting brief discussion in BioNews, Hane Maung, of Lancaster University, asks whether...
‘My shock at discovering I was a donor child’
'Suddenly my whole existence felt like a lie'Two readers got in touch with the BBC after it broadcast a story on the positive side of...
No, most people aren’t in severe pain when they die
An excruciating death is extremely rare. Many people fear death partly because of the perception they might suffer increasing pain and other awful symptoms the...