Struggling woman with dementia euthanised in Netherlands
Regional review committee questions consent and coercion. A Dutch euthanasia doctor has been rebuked by a Regional Review Committee after she gave a lethal...
Brain-computer interface allows completely locked-in people to communicate
Completely locked-in participants report being “happy”A female participant in the locked-in study A computer interface that can decipher the thoughts of people who...
Torture does not work, says trauma expert
But waterboarding is the most psychologically harmfulA Guantanamo Bay protest, with simulated water-boarding Scientists oppose President Donald Trump’s endorsement of torture, according to Science...
Nearly 100 psychiatric patients die of neglect in South African scandal
Scandal rocks nation Cost cutting in mental health is both difficult and dangerous, South African politicians have learned. The country’s health ombudsman has released a...
Has the UK reached a tipping point on assisted suicide?
The courts could force the government to act Could the United Kingdom soon see its blanket ban on assisted suicide (under section 2(1) Suicide Act...
POTUS and torture
It beggars belief that the leader of the free world and the world’s policeman, the President of the United States, thinks that torture is not...
Swedish midwife fights for her conscience rights
She was sacked for refusing to participate in abortions This week the Swedish Labour Court of Appeal heard the case of a midwife who has...
Nazi euthanasia victims honoured in Bundestag
Commemorating the 300,000 who died in Aktion T-4 On January 27, Germany’s Bundestag commemorated the 72nd anniversary of the liberation of the inmates of Auschwitz...
Trump refuses to repudiate torture
... but defers to his Secretary of Defense, who does not believe in it The United States now has a President who believes in torture...
Who’s a pretty boy then?
An extreme example of body modification. Sorry, we missed this story from late last year. A British man has reshaped his head to look more...
President Donald Trump
Donald Trump was a different sort of candidate and he gave a different sort of inaugural speech. It was short, sharp, divisive and isolationist, the...
Stem cells 1: ‘Be patient,” says Nobel laureate Shinya Yamanaka
Only a small portion of patients can be helped with stem cell therapyShinya Yamanaka / New York Times Japanese researcher Shinya Yamanaka won...