Nabbing the “Golden State Killer”
The Economist recently highlighted growing concern about “the surveillance state”. It argued that “the digital world, like the real one, [should have] places where law-abiding...
Nabbing the “Golden State Killer” poses bioethics question
The Golden State Killer case was cracked using a DNA matching website. In late April this year, California police arrested a suspect believed to be...
Nabbing the “Golden State Killer”
Police used genealogy website One of the worst cold case crime sprees in the US was settled in April when a 72-year-old former police officer, Joseph...
The 50 year legacy of the Harvard brain death report
50 years on, the brain death criterion remains controversial. 50 years ago, an ad hoc Harvard Medical School committee declared that patients in an “irreversible...
Spain’s new government will not legalise surrogacy
Deputy prime minister is scornful Carmen Calvo Spain’s new Socialist government has the most female cabinet members in history and a track record of backing...
AMA’s stand on assisted suicide weakens after annual meeting
Possibility of a push for “neutrality” The American Medical Association’s official position on assisted suicide is to oppose it as “fundamentally incompatible with the physician’s...
A dissenting view of modern bioethics
Physicians are marginalized, and individual autonomy in patient decision-making has been effectively negated Today, your doctor is likely to be a "stranger at the bedside,"...
VSED is gaining traction as an end-of-life option
Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED) appears to be becoming more common. In the past two decades there has been a dramatic increase in political...
Does CRISPR cause cancer?
CRISPR editing may be more harmful than previously thought. CRISPR-Cas9 technology has been heralded as one of the biggest breakthroughs in biomedical research of the...