Work for unemployed bioethicists?
If we haven't managed to sort out standards for bioethics yet, what chance is there for creating a widely-accepted non-controversial robot ethics? If you cannot...
Swiss canton to vote on assisted suicide on June 17
The Swiss canton of Vaud will hold a referendum on June 17 to decide whether nursing homes and hospitals must accept assisted suicide on their...
Highly accurate non-invasive pre-natal test available “within 5 years”
Scientists are moving closer to a reliable, non-invasive pre-natal test for genetic disorders. In a study in the journal Science Translational Medicine, Jay Shendure, of...
Synthetic biology could lead to disaster, says Oxford bioethicist
Synthetic biology offers the prospect of annihilating life as we know it, says Julian Savulescu Julian Savulescu, of Oxford's Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, has...
Scepticism about California’s stem cell institute persists
The dispute over 2004's Proposition 71, for setting up California's US$3 billion stem cell research institute, has surfaced again in the local media. Los Angeles...
German doctors vote against commercial suicide
Hi there, Earlier this month the German Medical Association apologized for human rights violations by Nazi doctors and asked for forgiveness from victims and their...
Why wait for death to remove kidneys from brain-damaged patients?
In the latest issue of the American Journal of Bioethics, Paul E. Morrissey, of Brown University, in Rhode Island, suggests that both kidneys could be...
Oh no! Not again! Not another Korean stem cell fraud!
Korean scientists will need more than a stiff drink to recover their joie de vivre after another stem cell researcher at Seoul National University has...
Crippled rats walk again with help of electrical stimulation therapy
Swiss scientists believe that a combination of electrical impulses and drugs could help some spinal trauma victims walk again. Crippling spinal cord injury has been...
Surrogacy a US$2.3 billion industry in India, with 1,000 clinics
An investigation by the London Sunday Telegraph has finally begun to give an idea of the scale of the surrogacy industry in India. According to...
Head of GPs in UK takes stand against assisted dying
The president of the Royal College of General Practitioners in the UK, Iona Heath, has taken a strong stand against the legalisation of assisted suicide....
Palme d’Or goes to euthanasia film
Another meditation upon compassionate euthanasia is making headlines among film buffs. “Amour”, by the Austrian director Michael Haneke, won the Palme D’Or at Cannes this...