Euthanasia takes a backward step in Portugal and Colombia
The president of Portugal has refused to sign a bill legalising euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa criticised its wording as imprecise. This...
Hepatitis research: more dark corners in American medicine
When World War II began, the US military discovered that it had a huge health problem: hepatitis. Nothing much was known about the disease and...
Showjumper wins right to sue over ‘wrongful conception’
A 20-year-old woman in the UK who aspires to be a paralympian has won the right to sue for millions in damages because her mother’s...
US Supreme Court returns to abortion in a major case
This week the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the most controversial case of the year, the long-awaited challenge to Roe v. Wade and...
If you want assisted suicide in Germany, first you must get vaxxed
Promoters of "voluntary assisted dying" often seem to be lacking a gene for irony. Take the Australian activist, Dr Philip Nitschke, and his attempt to...
The CRISPR babies: the story unfolds
Remember the shocking announcement of the first births of genome modified twins (Lulu and Nana) globally? In an article in Nature Biotechnology, we learn a...