UK health service may harvest organs from babies with lethal defects
Controversial proposal could same lives, say doctors The UK’s National Health Service is to encourage pregnant women whose children have a fatal birth defect to...
More bracket creep in Belgian euthanasia
Proposals in parliament to restrict conscientious objection Three bills which could significantly expand the scope of euthanasia in Belgium have been proposed by Laurette Onkelinx,...
Controversial report to support legalisation of surrogacy in Europe
Could fact stiff opposition With a range of inconsistent statutes amongst member states, surrogacy is becoming a political football in Europe. Accusations of conflict of...
Sharapova’s stumble revives doping debate
She broke the rules, but do the rules make sense? Maria Sharapova in the quarter-final of the Australian Open Top-ranked Russian tennis pro Maria...
Coping with ALS
Neurodegenerative disease is often cited as a reason for requesting assisted suicide or euthanasia. So insights into the motivations of profoundly disabled persons who want...
Ivy League agrees to tackling ban
Concussion scares lead to changed coaching Dartmouth clashes with Yale in 2009 (AP Photo/Bob Child) In January Steven H. Miles and Shailendra Prasada argued in...
Canadian ethicists prepare for the worst
They may not have the right to conscientious objection over euthanasia. Conscientious objection seems like the paradigmatic ethical choice between right and wrong. An ethicist,...
Sanitizing the language of clinical trials
When did subjects of medical experiments become "medical heroes"" Which would you rather participate in: a medical study or a medical experiment? Almost everyone prefers...
Treating racist patients
Should hospitals accommodate them? Should doctors? Here’s an interesting ethical conundrum. How should a doctor respond if he or she is rejected because a racist...
Nurse ignites debate over euthanasia in Portugal
Claims of covert deaths in public hospitals. The head of Portugal's national nurses' association has blown the whistle on covert euthanasia in public hospitals. Ana...
Costa Rica’s battle with IVF
A protracted struggle in the courts still has no resolution. Couples who want Costa Rica's IVF ban lifted in a meeting last year with President Luis...
The nuts and bolts of CIA torture
No matter how low the ethical bar is set, doctors cannot be complicit Can doctors participate in torture if there is a reasonable expectation of...