Would Jenner’s smallpox experiment pass a research ethics committee?
A single vulnerable subject exposed to a dread disease without animal trials -- it's not sounding good You have to pity Edward Jenner. He develops...
Celebrating Dutch euthanasia
Oh no; not again. Sorry: about half of our articles this week are about euthanasia, most of them about the Netherlands. I know that there...
A Dutch report applies the brakes on ‘completed life’ euthanasia
"Complete life" is not sufficient reason, says the Schnabel report Although euthanasia in the Netherlands is often regarded as an unstoppable juggernaut, a government commission...
Celebrating 15 years of Dutch euthanasia
Youth outreach is an important part of the program Beginning today, the Dutch right-to-die association NVVE is celebrating Euthanasia Week with a selection of documentary...
Cruelty at home and abroad
Parents love their daughters and think that FGM is good for them, like British parents who sent kids to boarding schools. Here’s a potato so...
Clinton fumbles on end-of-life choices
No one had ever asked her about it before. Clinton's response is at 2.00 minutes After California, the biggest state in the US, legalized assisted...
Zika: still wrapped in mystery
Some reports suggest that the situation is far more complex than reports in the media suggest. This was a week of confusing information about the...
Edinburgh to host world bioethics conference
In the city of the Scottish Enlightenment Edinburgh is the venue for 2016 world congress of the International Association of Bioethics, whose theme is “Individuals,...
Skulduggery
I’m sure it’s just randomness and not something in the water, but often our newsletters seem devoted to a theme, be it euthanasia, or IVF,...
Stem cell shenanigans by a Casanova in the Karolinska
Celebrity surgeon Paolo Macchiarini under fire in Sweden and the USPaolo Macchiarini Is there something about stem cells which provokes highly competent scientists into...
Preparing for medicine with artificial gametes
The Nuffield Council has produced an intriguing white paper. Foreseeing bioethical problems is one responsibility of the UK think tank, the Nuffield Council on Bioethics....
Another euthanasia scandal in Belgium
Is autism grounds for a lethal injection?Tine Nys (centre) with her sisters Another euthanasia scandal in Belgium. Two sisters have complained on a television...