May prisoners be used in clinical research?
Shusaku Endo may be the greatest Japanese novelist who didn’t win the Nobel Prize. He is best known in the West for his novel Silence,...
Is salt bad for you? Let’s feed prisoners low-salt food and see
Researchers enter fraught area of clinical research A group of medical researchers has proposed a clinical trial in American prisons to test whether too much...
Guernsey rejects assisted suicide
Back door closed for right-to-die methods in the United Kingdom A back door to assisted suicide and euthanasia in the United Kingdom has been closed....
US states could use nitrogen to execute prisoners
If it works for underground assisted suicide networks, why not in prisons? Underground methods of illegal assisted suicide could be used as a model for...
Nuffield Council releases study of AI in healthcare
Serious ethical issues emerge AI in healthcare is developing rapidly, with many applications currently in use or in development in the UK and worldwide. The...