Is fear of being a burden a good reason for assisted suicide?
A British ethicist says No. In Oregon, 48.9% of patients who ended their lives under the state’s assisted suicide act said that fear of being...
Russian babies swapped at birth
A heart-breaking story of maternal lossZoya's daughters Lucia (L) and Ekaterina. Picture: Zoya Tuganova The theme of babies swapped at birth is probably more common...
US jails: doctors should support compassionate release, say ethicists
What about the human dignity of prisoners?Compassion release of prisoners who are suffering from terminal illnesses or dementia is a controversial topic in the United...
Survey: most Americans support editing the human genome
Religion and knowledge about the technology determine what people thinkIn early August 2017, an international team of scientists announced they had successfully edited the DNA...
Landmark stem cell paper questioned
With 10,000 harmful single-gene mutations known, there is a lot at stake.Oh no! Not again! Such must be the sentiments of stem cell scientists after...
Nurse may have killed at least 90 in German nursing homes
The real dimension of the killings by Niels Högel is likely many times worse, say policeNiels Högel / EuroNews A male nurse may have...
If this is fatherhood, well, I’m a Dutchman
The 18th Century adventurer Giacomo Casanova measured his virility by the number of women he had seduced. After the reproductive revolution, his epigones benchmark theirs...
HMS Bioethics Journal launched
Harvard Medical School gets into the gameHarvard Medical School has published the inaugural issue of a bioethics journal, called – wait for it! --- Bioethics...
Study fails to discount link between fertility treatment and cardiovascular disease
If more and more older women are seeking fertility treatment, this could be a big dealThe authors of the first meta-study of links between fertility...
Revisiting “Father’s” Day
“Fatherhood” is what the guys in the business of policing the language call an “essentially contested concept” – no matter how much palaver you invest...
How much have we done for ‘the world’s largest humanitarian crisis’?
Hundreds of thousands are sick with cholera in the middle of a civil warHere’s what the United Nations has to say about Yemen, which is...
Tandem IVF: anything to guarantee a baby
Some IVF clinics are offering a radical technique for older women IVF clinics are always looking for a competitive advantage. “Tandem IVF” seems to be...