Hackers download OkCupid data without consent
Danish researchers post information on 70,000 people Is your privacy safe on the internet? How do you know? Now that people store medical records in...
Does fear change behaviour?
Bioethicists claim that fear-based public health campaigns are effective and not necessarily stigmatising In 2010 the New York City Department of Health launched a grisly...
Pfizer to stop supplying drugs for executions
But will it continue to supply them for euthanasia? Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has declared that it will not provide drugs to correctional institutions for executions....
Paris conference investigates CRISPR potential
All the highlights CRISPR and other gene-editing technologies hold great promise for treating disease. However, they also provoke significant ethical concerns, especially about germline modification...
One of America’s finest novelists tackles life extension
As Don De Lillo approaches 80, he meditates upon death“We are born without choosing to be. Should we have to die in the same manner?...
Fund-raising drive begins
BioEdge was launched in 2001, in the week that President George W. Bush announced his adminstration's policy on human embryonic stem cell research. That fuelled...
Dutch euthanasia cases up by 4%
Steep rise in end-stage psychiatric disorders and dementia. The number of euthanasia cases in the Netherlands continues to rise steadily. According to the latest statistics...
Australian govt report backs ban on domestic commercial surrogacy
... but supports altruistic surrogacy A government report has backed calls for an international treaty on surrogacy and for uniform legislation within Australia banning commercial...
Chinese policy on organ transplants is just smoke and mirrors, say critics
Falun Gong supporters query government announcements The issue of harvesting organs from political prisoners in China to supply the country’s more than 160 transplant centres...
Bold attempt to reverse brain death gets US approval
Proof-of-concept clinical trials on 20 patients in India Despite some sceptics, an Indian company working with a US biotech company has received a green light...
What the man in the street thinks about human enhancement
Overwhelmingly against germline modification What does the American public think about human germline enhancement? A survey of 17 polls taken over the 30 years published...
Dutch euthanasia cases up by 4%
Steep rise in end-stage psychiatric disorders and dementia. The number of euthanasia cases in the Netherlands continues to rise steadily. According to the latest statistics...