Strange, strange times
These are strange, strange times. Today I read an editorial in The New York Times headed, “Get Well, Mr. President”. I don’t recall ever reading...
After months of Covid-19 scepticism, President Trump is hospitalized with the virus
Should he have access to experimental medicines? President Trump on his way to Walter Reed Hospital One day before testing positive for Covid-19, President Trump...
Assisted dying round-up
New Zealand, Massachusetts, Portugal, Austria, Ireland, Tasmania Assisted suicide is on the legislative agenda in a number of jurisdictions. Here is the latest news on...
BBC airs Harold Shipman doco
Britain’s biggest serial killer was a family doctor A mugshot of Dr Harold Shipman There is assisted dying and there is assisted dying. The former...
Dwarfism drug criticized
“People like me are endangered and now they want to make me extinct.” A drug to improve the quality of life of children with achondroplasia,...
Are open letters by scientists worth the paper they’re written on?
Stanford epidemiologist John P.A. Ioannides says no. In late September a number of scientists wrote an open letter to the chief medical officers in the...
The UK’s leading abortion service will create life as well as end it
The British Pregnancy Advisory Service is going to open an IVF clinic The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) is Britain’s leading provider of abortion services....
Remember how urgent it was to support embryonic stem cell research? That was then; this is now
California Institute for Regenerative Medicine goes back to the voters The hot button bioethical issue of 2004 was embryonic stem cell research. Supporters spoke of...
Jeremy Bentham and social distancing
Would the founder of utilitarianism support Covid-19 directives? Since utilitarianism is a frequent topic on BioEdge, readers will no doubt be interested in what its...