Tom Price: Trump’s controversial pick as Health Secretary
He will probably be in charge of dismantling Obamacare Dr Tom Price, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services, has received...
Pressure mounts for commercial surrogacy in Australia
Online survey purports to show that most support it As clinics offering cheap surrogacy overseas shut their doors to foreigners, pressure is mounting in Australia...
Another abortion battle in Texas, this time over how to dispose of tissue
A policy of cremation or burial has become a major political and ethical dispute Disposing of aborted embryos has become a major political and ethical...
Is there a last-minute hitch with 3-parent embryo trials?
Not as straightforward as scientists have painted it Just as scientists in the UK are about to begin clinical trials with three-parent embryos, a study...
The complications and practicalities of cryopreservation
It is not as simple as it seemsSomeday we might get the technique right The publicity surrounding the cryopreservation of the body of...
Behind US assisted suicide stats
Stretching the law is already happening in California The farewell party for Betsy Davis A debate in the American state of Iowa over...
Interview: Philip Nitschke on life in the Netherlands
Dutch views on "completed life" sync with his notion of rational suicideLife on a Dutch houseboat Dr Philip Nitschke is probably the world’s best-known...
The ethics of Santa Claus disclosure
There is quite a bit of literature in bioethics journals about the ethics of telling white lies to patients, especially with terminally ill patients. There...
US conservative tries new tactic against animal research: calling it a waste of money
But it will face powerful opposition from industry and patients.Anthony Bellotti addresses White Coat Waste meeting in Washington DC Opposition to research on animals...
Doctors association refuses to back euthanasia in Australia
But insists that have they have "an ethical duty to care for dying patients so that death is allowed to occur in comfort and with...
Transhumanist candidate for president now supports Trump
Zoltan Istvan is preparing to run again in 2020. A Zoltan for President poster To no one’s great surprise, the candidate of the Transhumanist...
Death from the skies
Nitschke wants to use drones to deliver euthanasia. The data is sketchy, but drones authorized by President Obama have killed about 100 civilians and about...