Mother fears that Queensland man may have fathered 1000 children
A lesbian mother in the Australian state of Queensland has discovered that the anonymous sperm donor who is the biological father of all five of...
Italy grants citizenship to a terminally ill baby after UK doctors refused to keep her on life support
Italy has granted citizenship to an 8-month-old British baby, Indi Gregory, who is suffering from a serious and probably terminal mitochondrial disease. A judge in...
The responsibility of bioethicists: the case study of Yemen
With the eyes of the world on the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, there have been relatively few observations from bioethicists. Some 1,400...
Isle of Man moves closer to legalising ‘assisted dying’
The Isle of Man has taken a step closer to legalizing assisted dying. Seventeen members of the 24-member House of Keys, the island's parliament, approved...
Second recipient of genetically modified pig heart transplant dies
In a setback for the field of xenotransplantation, Lawrence Faucette, the second person in the world to receive a genetically modified pig heart transplant, died...
Why is the Scottish government recruiting egg donors?
The Scottish Government and National Health Service Scotland are running a campaign to recruit egg and sperm donors. “If it’s right for you then you...
Same old, same old: our enemies are harvesting our organs
Right on schedule, four weeks after the outbreak of the war between Israel and Hamas, are allegations that one side is harvesting organs from captives...