House of Lords debates assisted suicide—again
Baroness Meacher / screenshot GBNews Once again, the House of Lords in the UK is debating a bill to legalise assisted suicide. Lord Joffe introduced...
Spanish government tries to restrict conscientious objection
Right sentiment, wrong country: a demonstration in Buenos Aires in 2020 The Spanish government is considering measures to restrict conscientious objection for doctors. An editorial...
Pig kidney transplanted to human patient
NYU Langone Health / photo by Joe Carrotta The first transplant of a genetically engineered, non-human kidney to a human body was recently completed at NYU...
Non-invasive prenatal testing is becoming a growth industry
A fascinating article in the journal Annual Reviews examines the uptake of non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) in Australia, Canada, China and Hong Kong, India, Israel, Lebanon, the...
Benin and El Salvador go in opposite directions on abortion
Parliamentary committee votes / La Prensa Grafica It is odd to see how countries can differ so radically on the fundamental issue of abortion. The...
A mammoth resurrection
The thought of seeing woolly mammoths lumbering across the Siberian tundra is incredibly exciting. And Harvard geneticist George Church hopes to make it a reality. Cashed...
Prominent Australian assisted suicide campaigner dies
The Grand Old Man of assisted suicide in Australia, Dr Rodney Syme, died this week at the age of 86, after suffering a stroke. He...
Debate begins on NSW euthanasia bill
Parliament of New South Wales A euthanasia bill will be tabled soon in the parliament of the Australian state of New South Wales. Alex Greenwich,...
‘Fake news’ from Malawi about unsafe abortions
The London Telegraph published a confronting statistic about abortion this week: 12,000 women die every year in Malawi after a back-street abortion. “These women die like...
WHO calls for better palliative care world-wide
The topic of this year’s World Hospice and Palliative Care Day on October 9 was “Leave no one behind: Equity in access to palliative care”. The provision...
BMJ champions ‘assisted dying’
The editors of the BMJ recently put the prestige of their publication squarely behind “voluntary assisted dying”. In a long editorial with 30 footnotes, “Assisted...
China responds to allegations of organ harvesting
Falun Gong protesters against organ harvesting in China BioEdge and many other publications have highlighted claims by the NGO Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH) that...