‘Black bioethics’ emerging as a rebellion against conventional bioethics
The field is splintering into many different factions For too long bioethics has ignored the health of African-Americans, contends Keisha Ray, a bioethicist at McGovern...
More evidence of correlation between transgender and autism in UK study
Transgender adults are six times more likely to be diagnosed as autistic Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash Transgender and gender-diverse adults are three to six times more...
Disabled girl at centre of surrogacy case dies
Defying predictions, she had a happy life Serafina Harrell A girl with severe disabilities who made international headlines when her surrogate mother refused to abort...
Disability rights groups protest death of man in Texas hospital
What about the equal dignity of the disabled? Michael Hickson with his five children / photo from Melissa Hickson Late last month we reported the...
With Covid-19, the world needs more ‘infodemiologists’
Combatting a crisis in medical information on the internet The job of monitoring fake health news on the internet now has a name, specialist professionals...
Trump’s foetal tissue review panel is ‘stacked’, say opponents
Ten out of 15 oppose abortion Human foetal tissue research has been touted as a pathway to studying the coronavirus as well as HIV, diabetes,...
There is a bright side. If you catch Covid-19, you’ve missed out on bubonic plague
For a real epidemic, read ‘The Betrothed’Milan is in the grip of an epidemic. Towns have been quarantined. Public gatherings have been cancelled. The streets...
How many babies of surrogate mothers are stranded overseas?
With borders still closed around the world, news is emerging of the plight of babies born to surrogate mothers who are separated from the parents...
International surrogacy goes pear-shaped
A thousand babies -- at least -- are stranded in Russia with their surrogate mothersAs the weeks of the Covid-19 pandemic march on, more evidence...
Belgium’s euthanasia law under fire in European Court of Human Rights
The case of Godelieva de Troyer shows the entrenched conflict of interest in Belgian euthanasiaGodelieva de Troyer On April 19, 2012, a 64-year-old Belgian woman...
Of bikinis and vascular surgeons
What is unprofessional conduct?At a time when “cancel culture” is a good candidate for the 2020 Oxford Word of the Year, retractions of journal articles...
North Carolina has a bit part in the dark history of genocide
Bertween 1929 and 1974, the state’s eugenics program sterilized close to 7,600 men and womanA dark chapter in North Carolina’s history is its 20th century eugenics program....