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Some Israeli doctors have cooperated in the torture and mistreatment of prisoners, according to a report by two human rights organisations, Physicians for Human Rights...

Hi there, I confess that my knowledge of Norwegian history is rather scant, so I was surprised to learn that a thoroughly English granddaughter of...

Let’s scrap the fiction that most patients are dead when their organs are removed and allow doctors to take them from people who are still...

Doctors who participate in state-sponsored torture should be pursued with civil litigation, says an editorial in The Lancet. Although doctors have become an integral part...

Hi there, Thanks very much for your very helpful responses to our proposal for revising BioEdge. There was no strong preference for a newsletter with...

A ballot initiative in Mississippi could raise the stakes in the acrimonious American abortion debate. Proposition 26 affirms that personhood begins at conception. It seeks...

An Israeli man has been convicted in the first proven case of organ-trafficking in the United States. Levy Izhak Rosenbaum admitted to a court in...

Dear reader, BioEdge is probably the world’s largest and most comprehensive bioethics newsletter. Doctors, scientists, bioethicists, policy makers and ordinary mums and dads all over...

Occasionally we publish interviews with bioethicists about contemporary issues. This week's features Professor David Albert Jones, director of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre at Oxford, commenting...

Last week the European Court of Justice, in the case of Oliver Brüstle v Greenpeace, ruled that research involving the destruction of embryos cannot be...