Is hope bad for you?
It can distort your judgement Photo by CARL HUNLEY on Unsplash Is hope bad for you? A paper in the journal Psycho-oncology suggests that it...
UK court forces pregnant woman with agoraphobia to give birth in hospital
Outrageous and draconian, say critics Doctors can use force to take a pregnant woman who has agoraphobia to hospital to give birth, a UK judge...
Victorian government refuses to create register for ‘informal’ sperm donation
Facebook and other channels have become increasingly popular The Victorian government has rejected calls to establish a register of men who donate through informal channels...
The missing 13 million girls of India
This is odd, isn't it? That The Lancet Global Health published an article which claimed that "13.5 million female births were missing during the three...
UK minister roasted for thousands of UNintended Covid deaths in nursing homes. Why is he supporting INTENDED deaths via ‘assisted dying’?
Matt Hancock has come under fire for his performance during the pandemicMatt Hancock The British media was in a febrile ferment of frothing fury this...
Sex-selective abortion in India keeps claiming more victims
A study in The Lancet Global Health finds that at least 13.5 million girls were aborted over 30 years Photo by Frank Holleman on Unsplash...
Stem cell experts relax call for abolition of 14-day rule
“Utter disregard for the value and dignity of human life,” say American politicians As expected, the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) has updated...
World Medical Association moots mandatory referral for abortion and euthanasia
It is revising the International Code of Medical Ethics The World Medical Association is revising the International Code of Medical Ethics (ICoME) to limit the...
UDDA and RUDDA: uproar over possible change in brain death criteria
When are you really dead? Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash The Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) is not an Act and is not...
IVF for over-40 UK women has risen 20-fold
The number of IVF cycles for women in the UK over 40 has risen more than 20-fold in the last 30 years, according to a...
‘Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust’ – Colorado takes the ancient rubrics literally
Another state legalizes human composting Last month Colorado became the second American state, after Washington, to permit human bodies to be turned into compost. The...
Building back better in bioethics
Battered by the pandemic, bioethicists reflect on the future “Build Back Better” is not just a political slogan. It represents the feelings of bioethicists battered...