Australia’s ‘Dr Death’ forced to stop promoting suicide
Severe conditions placed on Philip Nitschke's registration The world’s foremost promoter of assisted suicide and euthanasia, Australia’s Dr Philip Nitschke, has agreed to cease his...
French doctor convicted of euthanasia death
Trial of Nicolas Bonnemaison sparks controversy Nicolas Bonnemaison with his wife on October 24 A 54-year-old doctor has been deregistered and convicted of killing...
Bioethics and the reproducibility crisis
Are bioethicists a spineless lot?Nature / David Perkins According to the mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel -- who is linked to bioethics through...
Is the great stem cell debate over?
A new paper claims that induced stem cells are functionally equivalent to embryonic stem cells It’s a sign of the times. Ten years ago, the...
Are there limits to informed consent?
If you don’t have a strong stomach, you are allowed to skip what follows and proceed directly to the article links below. Earlier this month...
The Experimenter’s pessimism
A new film highlights the controversial experiments by Stanley Milgram Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiments are so famous that that they have almost become a cliché,...
Supervision of euthanasia breaking down in Belgium
The theme of control is at the heart of debates about assisted suicide and euthanasia. For the patients, it’s control of their own lives. For...
A fine way to give blood
Alabama judge tells offenders to donate blood if they don't want to be finedJudge Marvin Wiggins, right, with Gov. Robert Bentley in 2013 / Dave Martin/Associated...
Mind the gap — between dream and reality
Uploading our minds to a computer could take centuries. Ray Kurzweil, inventor, futurist and now director of engineering at Google, believes that by 2045 it...
A David who humbled Goliath
The Washington Post profiles Planned Parenthood's bugbear, David Daleiden. David Daleiden is only 26, but he has already changed the course of the abortion debate...
Spanish girl at centre of futile care controversy dies
Hospital faces off against parents in ethical conflictAndrea's parents, Antonio Lago and Estela Ordoñez A right-to-die case which has riveted Spain ended on October 9...
More gendercide
We overlooked an amazing story three years ago -- a study of abortion rates in Nepal. Lately Nepal has been in the news as a...