Should Facebook have its own chapter in a bioethics text?
Another challenge for justice and autonomyWhy hasn’t bioethics taken on the challenge of social media? After all, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and other products are changing...
Is human gene editing around the corner?
No, says a stem cell scientist The development of CRISPR gene editing technology has quickly led to calls for modifying the human germline. In a...
Is euthanasia for psychological suffering changing Belgian medicine?
The national media is examining the topic after an exclusive appeared in the Washington Post Belgium’s debate over euthanasia for psychological suffering is heating up....
New Hippocratic Oath for doctors approved
There are some subtle but significant differencesA modern successor to the Hippocratic Oath for physicians around the world has been approved by the World Medical...
Are you lonely tonight?
Songs about loneliness are legion and range from the soppy and sentimental, like Roy Orbison’s “Only the Lonely” to the irony of the Beatles’ “Eleanor...
Stem cell superstar crashes and burns
Italian surgeon Paolo Macchiarini was once one of the world’s most feted doctors Macchiarini at a 2008 press conference Italian surgeon Paolo Macchiarini was once...
The Eleanor Rigbys of the world are health timebombs
Defining the problem is easier than finding a solution“Our crowded, lengthy commutes are making us more lonely than ever”. “Eating alone is BAD for your...
ShanidarCare
Stories like this have surfaced in BioEdge before, but I have always found them quite touching. We report below that researchers have found that a...
Belgium: euthanasia doctors split over psychiatric illness
One psychiatrist is doing far more cases than her colleaguesPsychiatrist Dr. Lieve Thienpont, right, speaks with a patient who received approval for euthanasia about a...
ShanidarCare: Neanderthals cared for their own
50,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers cared lovingly for their disabledKurdistan is a dangerous place today, but 50,000 years ago, Neanderthal hunter-gatherers had to keep a weather...
If you want to be a surrogate, make sure you have a lawyer
An American woman almost loses her own childAnother chapter in The Reproductive Revolution, this time (as so many other times) from California via a report...
We need to address questions of gender in assisted dying
Women are more at risk if assisted dying is legalisedOne of the principal motivations behind current efforts to legalise assisted suicide in Victoria and New...