The dark past of genetics unveiled
Hi there, We have been warning about the dangers of do-it-yourself eugenics for some time now. So it is gratifying to see BioEdge’s misgivings supported...
The American doctor who has helped nearly 300 to commit suicide
Newsweek has called 83-year-old Lawrence Egbert “the new Doctor Death”. By his own admission, he has ushered nearly 300 Americans through the portals of death...
Have we really exorcised eugenics from genetics?
he linkage between genetics and eugenics is an oft-told story, but it bears repeating again and again. This is an idea hammered home in latest...
Doctor Horror
Hi there, I can bumble along in Spanish, French and German. But that means that bioethics news in other languages flies beneath the radar. Fortunately...
Is this the worst IVF scandal ever?
Brazil’s best-known and most-successful IVF doctor is on the run from police after being convicted of sexually assaulting or raping 39 female patients between 1995...
Score one for the Patriarchy!
In an ethically dubious medical specialty, “Aesthetic Vaginal Surgery” may be the most dubious of all its subspecialties. In an ethically dubious medical specialty,...
Donor anonymity disappears in British Columbia
IVF sperm and egg donors can no longer be anonymous in the Canadian province of British Colombia, a judge has ruled. It was a victory...
An assisted suicide with a twist
Hi there! Here’s a thought experiment. From Guangzhou comes a startling story about assisted suicide. A man, Chen Fuchao, mounted a bridge and threatened to...
Sick American seek kidneys in Latin America’s illicit organ market
Latin American countries are trying to crack down on a growing illegal organ trade, according to a report from Bloomberg Markets Magazine. The article describes...
Foreign is as foreign does
STRANGE BUT TRUE DEPARTMENT: This has almost nothing to do with bioethics – except, perhaps, to highlight the fact that there is much that we...
“Brain dead” woman awakes in Australian hospital
Tani and Gloria Cruz“Hopeless” and “brain dead” are expressions which have to be used with great caution, it seems, judging from the experience of an...
Possible problem with induced stem cells
High hopes for the ethically less controversial variety of pluripotent stem cell have been dimmed by research published this week in Nature. A team led...