Neglected disabled man starved to death in UK hospital, says report
Disability rights campaigners outragedDisability rights campaigners in the UK expect that a health ombudsman will deliver a withering report on how disabled people far in...
Indian state of Kerala may debate euthanasia
Proposed by law reform commission A law reform commission in the Indian state of Kerala has recommended the legalisation of euthanasia and assisted suicide. “Life...
The case of the divorced kidney
New York doctor wants kidney back in divorce settlement Here’s a great bioethics script for Hollywood: New York surgeon marries a nurse in lavish wedding....
Official word on Chinese transplants
Donations from prisoners will continue Because more than 90% of its transplanted organs come from executed prisoners, China organ donation has a terrible reputation. However,...
Indian clinical trials risk patient safety
Soon to become US$1 billion business Call centres and data processing are not the only businesses which are being outsourced from the United States to...
Let students use mind-sharpening drugs without prescriptions, says bioethicist
John Harris says that the risks are proportional to the benefits Students should be allowed to use drugs such as Ritalin without a prescription to...
Got the blues? Insert a brain pleasure chip
Only a decade awayIn addition to enhanced cognition, enhanced pleasure is also on the horizon, according to an article in Nature Reviews Neuroscience. A research...
Nature backs mind-enhancing drugs
Give students drugs if they can’t afford them. Last year an informal survey in Nature found that 20% of scientists used mind-enhancing drugs to cope...
Montana to be third US state to legalise assisted suicide
Change comes through single judge, not legislatureMontana could become the third American state to legalise assisted suicide, after a district judge declared that constitutional guarantees...
Nitschke criticised for “cruel insensitivity”
But he says that he is being smeared Australian Euthanasia activist Dr Philip Nitschke has shrugged off responsibility for the death of a 39-year-old mother...
UK govt to turn blind eye to suicide trips to Zurich
Will not prosecute parents who brought their son to die in Switzerland The British government seems to be headed towards a "don’t ask, don’t tell"...
Abortion associated with mental disorders, says new peer-reviewed study
New Zealand article takes "middle-of-the-road position" A study in the latest issue of the peer-reviewed British Journal of Psychiatry asserts that abortion is associated with...