UK to study guidelines for doctors who are asked to help in a suicide
The UK body for regulating doctors, the General Medical Council, has announced that it is working on guidelines for telling doctors what they should do...
Panel gives US govt funded clinical research clean bill of health
Current rules and regulations provide adequate safeguards to mitigate risk in clinical trial, says the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. After a...
Has the time come for “queer bioethics”?
As same-sex marriage gains traction in the legal sphere, what about in bioethics? Two bioethicists at the University of Pennsylvania have issued a stirring call...
Sex selection: not as awful as you thought
Bioethicist Timothy F. Murphy, at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago, argues in the journal Bioethics, that “the natural sex ratio cannot...
Celebrating the festive season in the UK
A new scheme launched by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service has made getting the morning after pill as easy as ordering a pizza – but...
Obama administration bans morning-after pill for under-17s
In a surprise move, the Obama Administration has overruled a decision by the Federal Food and Drug Adminisration to allow girls under 17 to buy...
Is China harvesting organs from ethnic minorities?
A frightening article in the Weekly Standard sheds some light on the situation. Investigative journalist Ethan Gutmann interviewed several Uighur refugees now living in the...
Hope for cure for cleft palate
Scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College have used genetic methods to successfully repair cleft lips in mice embryos. The research breakthrough may show the way...
Is the slippery slope at work in Belgium?
The “slippery slope” is often derided as a logical fallacy. But when one of the leading advocacy groups for euthanasia in Belgium posts an article...
UK IVF clinic destroys donated eggs
A UK couple are distraught after a blunder at IVF Wales in Cardiff. Chris and Lorraine were told over the phone on the evening they...
New Jersey nurses allege religious discrimination over abortion
Twelve New Jersey nurses have charged a hospital with religious discrimination after it announced it would introduce a policy that would require them to help...
Elderly British abused, human rights violated while in home care
The basic needs and human rights of elderly people receiving home care in England often go unfulfilled and physical and financial abuse happen too often,...