Vale Noa Pothoven
The news of a 17-year-old Dutch girl suffering from anorexia nervosa who died of 'euthanasia" flew around the world this week. It was an error....
Funding door closes on foetal tissue research in US
Trump Administration backs the pro-life side of a long-standing controversy The Trump Administration has effectively shut down medical research using foetal tissue from elective abortions....
Dutch ‘euthanasia’ case sparks international furore
While the story of a Dutch teen's assisted death wasn’t real, it could have been. Euthanasia debates often centre on older, terminally ill patients who...
German nurse killed at least 85 patients
We may never know how many Niels Hoegel A former German nurse who liked to put patients into cardiac arrest because he enjoyed the feeling...
Editing human genome may have done more harm than good
It is still dangerous to introduce mutations into the human germline He Jiankui A genetic mutation that Chinese scientist He Jiankui attempted to create in...
Assisted suicide could be legalised in Maine
The northeast state edges closer to legalising assisted suicide The Maine State House, in Augusta The state of Maine could be the next US jurisdiction...
When genetic tests are bombshells
What will they reveal about ‘misattributed paternity’? A senior British health official has reminded Britons of an bitter consequence of genomic medicine – misattributed paternity....
Surrogacy agencies move to Kenya
Poor, unregulated – what more could you want? The staff of Surrogacy Agency Kenya Kenya is becoming a major surrogacy destination now that India and...