CIA medical personnel involved in torture
Leaked report from Red CrossHealth personnel participated in the torture and interrogation of "high-value" detainees by the US Central Intelligence Agency, according to a leaked...
An inconvenient enthusiast
Al Gore bets on iPS cells First Oprah, now Al. Are America’s opinion leaders jumping from the USS Embryonic Stem Cell and enlisting on the...
Tough decisions about caring for disabled Canadian babies
Three recent cases Canada seems to be the place to go for difficult decisions about end-of-life care for infants. Here are three which are currently...
Grieving Texas mother harvests dead son’s sperm
Part of healing process, she says A Texas woman has persuaded a court to allow her to harvest her 21-year-old son's sperm after his death...
Healthcare workers suffer compassion fatigue
Leads to anxiety, cynicism, chronic tiredness, irritability and problem drinkingHealthcare workers are succumbing to "compassion fatigue" after seeing people suffer and die of cancer or...
Unethical medical experiments in Israeli Army alleged
In violation of the Helsinki Accords The Israeli Defence Force conducted unethical medical experiments on more than 700 of its troops in the late 1990s,...
Another pregnant man, this time in Spain
Interrupts sex change treatment to have child Another thrilling chapter in the annals of artificial reproductive technology is being written in Spain. A 25-year-old transsexual...
Stem cells may help hearing loss
British researchers on track to create inner ear cells Stem cells may help deaf people hear again, according to early stage research by British scientists...
Dignitas to expand suicide service from the ill to the well
Remarkable BBC interview In the first broadcast interview he has given in five years, the Swiss founder of the controversial assisted suicide service Dignitas has...
Hospital employees fired for peeking at OctoMom’s records
Bellflower Hospital in Los Angeles Curiosity is an addiction, it seems. Despite warnings and refresher courses in patient privacy laws, nearly two dozen employees of...
Peter Singer likes human beings
In interview with Forbes, bioethicist explains hopes for future. The world’s best-known bioethicist, Peter Singer, of Princeton University, has confirmed that human beings are amongst...
The story behind Middle Pleistocene human Cranium 14
Hunter-gatherers cared for their young. There is a wonderful Australian poem by A.D. Hope about a thousand-year-old bone found in 1901 in Norway which had...