Vale Edmund Pellegrino
Edmund Pellegrino, a “conservative” bioethicist who won the respect of colleagues of all persuasions, died this week at the age of 92.Edmund Pellegrino, a “conservative”...
Pill to be available over the counter in US
One of the rare issues on which President Obama has agreed with conservative critics is restricting the availability of emergency contraception to women 17 and...
Convicted paedophile gets child from surrogate mother in India
A convicted Israeli paedophile adopted a 4-year-old girl from a surrogate mother in India, the Jewish Chronicle has reported.A convicted Israeli paedophile adopted a 4-year-old...
Indian women victimized in sterilization camps
Sterilization of poor Indian women is still a major tool used by state governments to slow population growth. Sterilization of poor Indian women is still...
Medicine students peer into their own genetic future
Stanford University has introduced an ambitious new genetics subject into its medical curriculum, in which students study their own genetic data.Stanford University has introduced an...
Put disabled babies out of our misery, say Dutch doctors
Distress felt by parents of a dying newborn can justify the child’s euthanasia, says Royal Dutch Medical Association (KNMG), which represents doctors in the Netherlands....
The rise of robot ethics
Hi there, Although bioethics deals with living beings and robot ethics deals with machines, their destinies are intertwined. As you can read in this week’s...
US ob-gyns tell governments to butt out of doctor-patient relationship
Governments should butt out of the patient-doctor relationship, says an exasperated peak body for American doctors. Governments should butt out of the patient-doctor relationship, says...
Sydney court ditches binary sexual identity
A Sydney court of appeal has ruled that sex is not binary, ie, just male or female. A Sydney court of appeal has ruled that...
UN debates use of killer robots
The ethics of using killer robots is adding a new subspeciality to bioethics. The ethics of using killer robots is adding a new subspeciality to...
Maine refuses to follow Vermont on assisted suicide
The Maine House of Representatives has decisively rejected a bill to legalize physician assisted suicide , just days after Vermont legalized it. The Patient Directed...
New study identifies five ways to make consent informed
Health experts have long lamented the complexity of patient consent forms. A new University of Michigan study may provide a solution to this barrier to...