First child euthanised in Belgium
This is the first case since the country's euthanasia law was amended in 2014 A terminally ill youngster been euthanised in Belgium – the first...
How open should presidential candidates be about their health?
Is it in the public interest to deny them privacy? At 68 and 70 respectively, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are amongst the oldest-ever candidates...
Two perspectives on female genital cutting
Mutilation and cosmetic surgery The World Health Organization reports that more than 200 million girls and women currently have been subjected to female genital mutilation/cutting...
Harvard’s sugar daddy
Scientists collaborated with the sugar industry in the 1960s to dismiss health concerns. Harvard nutrition researchers in the 1960s were suborned by the sugar industry...
Let’s fight climate change with population engineering
Bioethicists table strategies for reducing greenhouse gases Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich popularized the formula I=PxAxT in his race to defuse the Population Bomb. It meant...
Everything you wanted to know about genetic engineering in one chirpy video
It may be too optimistic about the future, but it is a good overview of a complex field. This chirpy video about genetic engineering explains...
Excel glitch
I’m not very clever with spreadsheets. Never have been. Never will. My consolation, though, is that some people who use them 24/7 may not be...
Biological ties are unimportant, says bioethicist
We must not give in to patriarchal thinking.... The search for one’s “real” father or “real” mother is a motif not only of yesteryear’s literature...
Has Obamacare created a “transgender mandate”?
Activists claim that doctors will be forced to perform gender transition procedures. On yet another front, Obamacare has been challenged on ethical grounds, this time...
Swedish medicine in turmoil over stem cell researcher
Paolo Macchiarini was one of the hottest names in science, but now dark clouds hang over his work Paolo Macchiarini / ITAR-TASS Photo Agency ...
Are abortions for cleft palate rising in the UK?
The latest figures suggest that pre-natal tests are to blame Abortions for cleft palate, an easily-fixed facial deformity, have been rising in the United Kingdom,...
Investigating IVF
From an ethical point of view, IVF is made of teflon. Just about nothing sticks. It's understandable, since its product line is the joyful experience...