Handy hints for ‘humane’ way out
Dutch organisation provides suicide tips on website The website of the Dutch Right-to-Die Association (NVVE) has launched a detailed information package on how to commit...
Indian hospital’s innovative drive for organs
Cadaver maintenance programme A hospital in Chennai is marketing an innovative program for increasing the supply of organs – a "cadaver maintenance programme". Indians are...
Chinese Government’s move to prevent organ trafficking unsuccessful
Success of organ donation system doubtful The Chinese Government made efforts in August to curb organ trafficking by introducing a national organ donation system. But...
More funding for ethics needed to study conflicts of interest
Letter to NIH head Francis Collins The National Institutes of Health is being asked to fund a study of the ethics of conflicts of interest...
Everything you want to know about Dignitas
Interview in Guardian The UK Guardian ran a lengthy interview with the founder of the Swiss suicide group Dignitas, Ludwig Minelli, this week. Accompanying the...
Everything you wanted to know about OctoMom
Interview with New York Times MagazineThe New York Times recently spent a day with OctoMom, her 14 children and a British film crew and left...
Bans on egg-selling demeans women, argues Australian bioethicist
Loane Skene now takes feminist line Four years after her committee advised the Australian government to ban a market for women's eggs for human embryonic...
New Orleans IVF clinic shuts its doors
Scandals will keep clinic closed for good An IVF clinic in New Orleans which made numerous mistakes will remain closed. As reported in BioEdge, a...
US Catholic bishops speak out on bioethics
Two new documents are clear, if not original American Catholic bishops have been busy this week. Along with their ecclesiastical business at an annual conference,...
UK doctors fibbing about Down syndrome, says expert
Trying to spare feelings of women Studies have shown that 92% of Down Syndrome babies are aborted in the UK each year, much the same...
Biometrics sparks privacy fears in Ireland
Collecting biometric information could put civil liberties and privacy at risk Collecting biometric information could put civil liberties and privacy at risk, despite considerable benefits,...
London hosts first fertility trade show
What financial crisis? IVF in Britain is a 500 million pound industry, so it's surprising that no one had ever organised one before: a fertility...