In times of climate crisis, how many children should you have?
None, according to several philosophers“There is no more any prophet,” is the bitter lament of the Psalmist. We are more fortunate. Sixteen-year-old Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg...
AMA sticks to a policy of opposing assisted suicide
It joins the American College of Physicians and the World Medical Association The American Medical Association voted this week by 71% to 29% to reaffirm...
Maine legalises assisted suicide
It is the ninth US jurisdiction to permit ‘medical aid in dying’ The US state of Maine has become the ninth jurisdiction to legalise physician-assisted...
Blue ribbon Canadian panel proposes guidelines for euthanasia and organ donation
Published in Canadian Medical Association Journal Interest in organ donation with euthanasia is growing in Canada. Although it is still not legal or approved by...
Alabama OKs chemical castration for sex offenders
But is it “cruel and unusual punishment”? Alabama has joined several other American states in requiring sex offenders to be chemically castrated when they are...
Sperm banks’ ‘he-man’ strategy to lure donors
Globally, the sperm donation industry is valued at more than US$3.5 billion Sperm banks in the United Kingdom and Australia are using images and phrases...
Vale Noa Pothoven
The news of a 17-year-old Dutch girl suffering from anorexia nervosa who died of 'euthanasia" flew around the world this week. It was an error....
Funding door closes on foetal tissue research in US
Trump Administration backs the pro-life side of a long-standing controversy The Trump Administration has effectively shut down medical research using foetal tissue from elective abortions....
German nurse killed at least 85 patients
We may never know how many Niels Hoegel A former German nurse who liked to put patients into cardiac arrest because he enjoyed the feeling...
Editing human genome may have done more harm than good
It is still dangerous to introduce mutations into the human germline He Jiankui A genetic mutation that Chinese scientist He Jiankui attempted to create in...