Canadian doctors debate transplants for foreigners
Canadian transplant surgeons are debating the ethics of transplanting the organs of foreign nationals. In some cases, according to the National Post, a surgeon wanted...
Zsa Zsa Gabor to be a mother again? At 94?
Hi there, Before I forget, there will be no BioEdge newsletter on the weekend of April 22-24, the Easter holiday, although we will post some...
“Dishonest” hype inflated stem cell hope, say bioethicists
It’s difficult to think of bioethicists who differ on more issues than Robert P. George, of Princeton and Arthur Caplan of the University of Pennsylvania....
US women join class-action lawsuit demanding more money for eggs
Thousands of women across the United States have joined a class-action suit demanding better compensation for egg donors. The case was lodged this week in...
American women become surrogates for foreign couples
Is hardship because of the GFC? Or an entrepreneurial spirit? Or a sympathetic legal system? Whatever it is, Illinois women have discovered surrogate motherhood for...
UK mother asks for daughter’s life support to be withdrawn
Should food and water be removed from unresponsive patients? The cases in the newspapers nearly always feature dramatic conflicts between a flint-hearted medical bureaucracy wanting...
surrogate motherhood and the Daily Mail
Hi there, Drizzle or no drizzle, there are times when I wish that I lived in London – when I get my hands on a...
Political views are reflected in brain structure
A number of studies have found that there is a genetic or psychological basis for political preferences. Now reseachers at University College London, writing in...
Food and water are medical treatments, say Canadian ethicists
It is ethical to withhold and withdraw artificial nutrition and hydration (ANH) from children, says the Canadian Paediatric Society. In a bioethics position statement, it...
IVF mix-up mum to have twins with a surrogate
Another adventure in the Wild West of assisted reproduction. Carolyn and Sean Savage, of Ohio, had two boys conceived naturally and an IVF daughter. But...
Children of surrogate mothers are not French, court rules
A drama surrounding twins born overseas to a surrogate mother has raised hopes of legalising surrogacy in France. The nation’s highest court this week denied...
India’s sex ratio
Hi there, There can be no bioethical issue which commands such universal support as the evil of gendercide. In many countries, girls are aborted or killed...