Moral disgust: Is there wisdom in repugnance?
The 'yuk' factor can sometimes play a decisive role in our moral assessments. But how reliable a guide are our visceral reactions of disgust? The...
Are Dutch doctors losing their nerve over euthanasia?
Politicians in the Netherlands are pushing the organisation which represents Dutch doctors to overcome its misgivings over euthanasia for patients with dementia. Politicians in the...
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Vermont legalizes assisted suicide
Vermont has become the fourth US state to legalize euthanasia. Its legislature voted in favor of the controversial law last week. The new legislation allows...
Nobel laureate marketing lifespan test
The Australian winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine is leveraging her discovery to market a test which will help people know their true...
Alzheimer’s and the euthanasia debate
Negative attitudes towards Alzheimer’s disease are undue influence on the euthanasia debate, claims an Australian bioethicist.Negative attitudes towards Alzheimer’s disease are undue influence on the...
The man who didn’t die
A Montana man brain cancer diagnosis shows how difficult it is to determine whether or not a person has a “terminal illness”. Mark Templin was...
Australian academics campaign against Chinese transplant chief
A fierce campaign is being carried out in Australia to strip Chinese doctor Huang Jiefu of his honorary professorship at Sydney University. Dr. Jiefu, who...
Fear factor: first pre-emptive removal of prostate
Following the highly publicised pre-emptive double mastectomy of Hollywood celebrity Angelina Jolie, it has emerged that a 53-year-old British man has become the first in...
Jinxed? Problems with landmark paper on human cloning
Last week we reported that researchers at the Oregon Health and Science University had finally cloned human embryos and successfully extracted embryonic stem cells.This was...
Dan Brown’s latest thriller tackles transhumanism
Inferno: Robert Langdon is back with a globe-trotting thriller in which the symbologist has to decode clues left in a map of Dante’s masterpiece by...
Switzerland told to clarify vague assisted suicide laws
A European Court has told Switzerland to make its euthanasia laws more specific, after an 82-year-old woman seeking the procedure on the grounds of old...