Singapore must prevent abuses in donation of unused surplus frozen eggs
A recent Channel News Asia article, “Egg donation in Singapore: What couples with complex infertility need to know if they want to have a baby”,...
Faster, higher, stronger with drugs: the Enhanced Olympics
Marion Jones. Lance Armstrong. Ben Johnson. Tim Montgomery. Svetlana Podobedova. The list of drug cheats, athletes who were stripped of gold medals because they used...
Is transgender medicine based on rock-solid evidence?
It is becoming harder and harder to assess claims that transgender medicine is based upon rock-solid evidence. Much of the time, the debate is carried...
Voluntary castration becoming a gender choice
Are there ethical limits to what surgeons should be permitted to do in an age when gender affirmation surgery is permitted? Consider the underground cult...
The dark down-side of California surrogacy
California has become a haven for commercial surrogacy. One of its attractions is that the commissioning parents, in effect, “own” the developing child. The surrogate...
Details of Japan’s experiment with eugenic sterilization released
Japan is confronting stories of forced sterilization and eugenics under a law which was effective from 1948 to 1996. A Parliamentary investigation has found that...
IVF: The US$24 billion industry selling hope
In vitro fertilization is a booming business, says The Economist in a special report on the IVF business. The global market is expected to reach...