Many British “clients” at Dignitas not terminally ill
Swiss group "cavalier", says doctor Many of the Britons who seek suicide in Switzerland with the help of the Dignitas organisation were not terminally ill...
Academic proposes Swiss suicide as model for US
Offers potential for demedicalising death While British doctors may be aghast at the suicide tourism in Switzerland, an American bioethicist has just published a learned...
The road ahead for Obama’s bioethics
More consultation is the future Now that the President’s Council for Bioethics has passed on to the bureaucrats’ burying ground, what will replace it? The...
Canadian “mockumentary” about women fathering children
Probably impossible, but thought-provoking Bioethics goes to the movies again. This time, it’s in a new Canadian film, The Baby Formula, about two lesbians who...
Delayed motherhood is “public health issue”
After 35, fertility falls off sharply, say British doctors Britain’s peak body for fertility doctors has described the rising ages of mothers in Britain and...
Pioneer in population ethics has misgivings
Daniel Callahan says that greying of population is worrying A pioneer in the ethics of population control is having misgivings. Daniel Callahan, one of the...
Obama disbands bioethics council
Sudden but expected The US President’s Council on Bioethics has been disbanded. Members were told last week that their services were no longer needed and...
The audacity of hope – can deliver big bucks
Biotech discovers how to make money out of rare diseases Drug companies make money by developing and marketing patented drugs for ailments like hypertension, ulcers...
New York allows compensation for research eggs
More benefit to society than donating for reproduction After "extensive deliberation", New York’s stem cell authority has decided to allow scientists to remunerate women who...
Dignitas on the move again
Residents object The Swiss suicide group Dignitas is homeless again. The organisation will be forced to leave its current location in a Zurich suburb when...
Pull the government out of deficit: kill yourself
Satire echoes realityThe Onion – America’s finest news network – seldom runs anything as satirical as this argument for euthanasia from the CMC Forum, an...
Woman aborts other mother’s last IVF embryo
Welsh woman traumatised A Welsh woman and her partner are devastated after a National Health Service IVF clinic implanted their embryo in the wrong woman,...