Stem cells 2: Was California sold a stem cell pup?
Most of the funds have been spent on building, not research The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine was created in 2004 after voters overwhelmingly supported a US$3...
Using patents to restrict harmful applications of CRISPR
As a complement to government policies The new CRISPR gene-editing technology is an incredible tool, but it could be used for ethically-troubling procedures like human...
Catholic healthcare in Colorado may clash with new assisted suicide law
Two systems have refused to cooperate The US state of Colorado has legalized assisted suicide, but its large Catholic hospital system is refusing to cooperate,...
Duterte vows to roll out contraceptive plan in Philippines
President wants to halve poverty The President of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, has vowed to ensure that there is “zero unmet demand” for contraception in...
First British man to give birth
'I'm going to be the greatest dad' In one of most head-scratching stories so far this year, a British woman who began living as a...
A doctor at the centre of the capital punishment debate
Dr Carlo Musso explains why he cooperates Emergency physician Carlo Musso is the President of CorrectHealth, a Georgia-based company with 400 employees which provides medical...
Waste not, want not
Transplant surgeons in Belgium and the Netherlands are already harvesting organs from patients who have requested euthanasia. Could this happen in Canada, the new kid...
Canadian bioethicists call for organ donor euthanasia
Safeguards would be needed Well, that didn’t take long. Euthanasia became legal in Canada in June and by December Quebec bioethicists had already published an...
Sperm and eggs grown in a Petri dish could revolutionise reproduction
Experts argue that we have to be prepared The imminent arrival of eggs and sperm grown from skin cells makes legislative change imperative, three Ivy...
Dutch IVF clinic tries hard, could do better
26 women may have received wrong sperm The eggs of 26 women at a Dutch IVF clinic may have been fertilised with the wrong sperm....
Destination Laos: the ever-changing surrogacy business changes again
Business shifting operations to another lightly regulated country The dreary design of the website and Facebook page of Find Surrogate Mother (aka surrogacy inc) makes...
“Anti-psychiatry” gets official recognition at U of Toronto
Creates controversy in Canada An institute at the University of Toronto has established the world’s first scholarship for anti-psychiatry. Bonnie Burstow, an anti-psychiatry activist, has...