A judge loosens Canada’s euthanasia belt another notch or two
Patients no longer need to be terminally ill Something north of 8,000 people have died in Canada after its Medical Aid in Dying legislation came...
Dutch doctor acquitted of unlawful euthanasia
The first in the history of the controversial law to trigger criminal charges In a landmark case, a Dutch doctor who euthanised a severely demented...
‘Medical ethics’ is ethics by, for and about medics, not common morality, says bioethicist
‘The ethics of medicine is internal to the profession’ The presence of the word “ethics” in “medical ethics” (and “bioethics”) suggests to the hoi polloi...
Doctors are ‘professionals’ and should leave religion out of it
Medicine has its own rules As if to illustrate Rosamond Rhodes’s thesis (see other BioEdge article), Udo Schuklenk argues, also in the Journal of Medical...
Another IVF mix-up creates a child and destroys a marriage
Caucasian New Jersey couple have child with Asian features Drew Wasilewski and Kristina Koedderich For headline writers, IVF is the gift that keeps on giving....
‘Artificial embryos’ created at the University of Michigan
‘It’s uncanny how much it is like a human embryo’ Embryoids growing in the device / University of Michigan American scientists are creating embryo-like structures which...
Ezekiel Emanuel: intimations of mortality
A leading bioethicist reflects upon his lifespan Sixty-two-year-old Ezekiel Emanuel, chair of the University of Pennsylvania’s department of medical ethics and health policy, as well...
A new blockbuster: sperm donor reality TV?
Could be coming to Channel 4 in the UK Shipmates: another chapter in Channel 4's bioethical research Wanted: a bioethics consultant for Channel 4 in...
More on conscientious objection
Conscientious objection to procedures like abortion and euthanasia often features in BioEdge. There is a growing consensus that CO has no place in modern medicine....