Everybody’s a winner when euthanasia combines with organ donation, say doctors
Several Dutch and Belgian doctors have proposed legal reforms to increase the popularity of combining euthanasia and organ donation in the Netherlands and Belgium. Writing...
That euthanasia stuff… does anyone remember what we decided?
Belgium legislators forgot to publish an amendmentCatherine Fonck (l) and Health Minister Maggie De Block in Parliament Despite – or perhaps because of –...
Doing the right thing by transgender kids is not easy
A US$5.7 million study begins soon amidst ethical uncertainties A US$5.7 million study of the long-term outcomes of medical treatment for transgender youth begins recruiting...
The Netherlands is normalising euthanasia, says Dutch ethicist
A former member of a euthanasia review board is horrified at what is happening in his country A former member of a euthanasia review board...
LGBT rift over surrogacy?
A lesbian couple says that Down syndrome children should not be aborted. It’s not just bio-conservatives who are troubled and puzzled by the growth of...
The unsettled status of conscientious objection in the UK
The BMA's restrictive position may not be defensible What are the rights of doctors who have a conscientious objection to certain procedures in the United...
Only in Sweden
A mysterious illness spreads among refugee children.Ernada Hidanovic and her son Armando, refugees in Sweden / Paul Madej The political and policing...
More history of Nazi medical experiments
Hi there, Next week the staff of BioEdge will be celebrating Easter, so there will be no newsletter. We shall resume early in April. This...
The forgotten history of Australian POWs, victims of Nazi doctors
It is small beer compared to other World War II atrocities but an historian has uncovered the story of five Australian POWs who were experimented...
Crispr will lead to designer babies, says geneticist
It’s worthwhile knowing what the scientist behind the deveopment of CRISPR, the revolutionary gene-editing technology, thinks about the ethics of using it. In an interview...
Brazilian bioethicist murdered
Antonio Moser was a distinguished Catholic scholar Although their field deals with immensely controversial life-and-death topics, most bioethicists do not die a violent death. However,...
The yolk’s on me
I must confess that one of the most difficult things about editing BioEdge is that it is difficult to compose punny headlines. Any editor worth...