Chinese scientists could clone humans
Plants in Tianjin plans to produce one million cloned cows a year by 2020.The Boyalife cloning factory in Tianjin Cloning has been off the...
US surrogates with triplets pressured to abort
New York ponders removing the state's commercial surrogacy ban.Melissa Cook Two surrogate mothers who are pregnant with triplets are being pressured by the prospective...
IVF booming in China
Abolition of one-child policy builds business China’s decision to abolish the one-child policy made many couples happy – and many IVF clinics. Business is booming,...
Surrogacy in Mexico
Poor women exploited by US surrogacy agencies. Another documentary about the dark side of surrogacy, this time in Mexico. Channel 4 journalist Kiki King interviews...
Doin’ what comes natur’lly
Nuffield Council on Bioethics releases report on "naturalness" A new medical technology encounters the most resistance when Joe Bloggs thinks it is “unnatural”. If you...
Is the antibiotic apocalypse nigh?
Experts warn that it is creeping closer. In practice contemporary bioethics assumes a constantly increasing standard of medicine. The challenge is to ensure that healthcare...
The underground Dutch system for do-it-yourself euthanasia
Right-to-die groups are promoting a "peaceful pill" The leading Dutch right-to-die society is seeking talks with the Dutch medical association (KNMG) for approval of a...
Taking moral bioenhancement seriously
Oxford’s utilitarian bioethicist Julian Savulescu, with others, has proposed what they call moral bioenhancement – achieving moral outcomes with the help of drugs, genetic engineering...
Nitschke tells medical board to go to blazes
Burns practicing certificate and announces plans for a right-to-die campaign It took only a month for Australia’s leading right-to-die activist to tire of life without...
Indian doctor sues husband over pressure to abort twin daughters
An attempt to highlight the on-going scandal of gendercide. A woman doctor in India has sued her husband and a hospital for pressuring her to...
Should British surrogates be paid?
The law needs an overhaul, but the solutions will probably not include commercial surrogacy. Sydney Morning Herald /Simon Bosch There appears to be...
Run that past me again: forced-feeding is not OK in Guantanamo, but is OK in nursing homes?
A scathing attack on the practice of force feeding elderly patients in the New York Times A US medical academic has made a scathing attack...