Queensland legalises ‘assisted dying’
The Australian state of Queensland is the latest jurisdiction to legalise euthanasia and assisted suicide. Nearly all of Australia now has access to “assisted dying”....
Is abortion a global public health emergency?
Has Covid-19 created a precedent for dealing these emergencies? Around the world, public health measures to cope with Covid-19 -- like social distancing and lockdowns...
Dutch doctors cleared to euthanise dementia patients who have advance directives
After the exoneration of a nursing home doctor, authorities have made new guidelines Dutch doctors will be able to sedate demented patients and then euthanise...
Leading British surgeon allegedly hoarded body parts
He illegally accumulated the bones of patients over 25 years (Sorry, we missed this significant story which broke in September and October.) A pioneering orthopaedic...
Serbian govt and media attack bioethicist
Defended by prominent colleagues in US and UK Prof. Vojin Rakić A leading Serbian bioethicist is being attacked by the government and media in his...
Mother blocks – temporarily – transgender treatment in BC
Judge issues injunction to stop ‘gender-affirming’ double mastectomy A Supreme Court judge in British Columbia stopped doctors from performing a “gender-affirming” double mastectomy on a...
Military doctors who treated Trump are caught in a web of dilemmas
If he is their Commander-in-chief, can they refuse to give him experimental drugs? President Donald Trump’s brush with Covid-19 raised a number of questions related...
British right-to-die campaigner starves herself to death
She was afraid that the other alternative, a drug overdose, would not work and she wanted to die at home, not in Switzerland, where assisted...
Drug tests in East Germany get “conceded pass”
Informed consent was not completely ignored in the 1980s, researchers find. Respect for informed consent is not regarded as one of the greatest virtues of...
Is conflict of interest a real problem for doctors?
Aaron E. Carroll, a blogger at The Incidental Economist, summarises recent research about conflicts of interest. In this YouTube video Aaron E. Carroll, a paediatrician...
Should all Ebola volunteers be quarantined?
Hundreds of foreign healthcare workers have been shuttling in and out of Ebola-affected countries in West Africa. Hundreds of foreign healthcare workers have been shuttling...
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