‘Bumble for surrogates’: American doctor launches surrogacy app
The internet is changing how healthcare is delivered in ways that subvert laws, regulations, and medical conventions. Start-up companies are offering medication abortions, along with...
Why are Canadian euthanasia deaths so high?
Euthanasia deaths in Canada have shot upwards. In 2015 there were none; in 2021, the last full year for which there are statistics, there were 10,064....
Belgium euthanasia deaths rise by nearly 10%
The number of cases of euthanasia in Belgium rose by 9.85% over the previous year in 2022, according to figures published on February 17 by...
‘Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive’
The Atlantic has a regular advice column written by psychotherapist Lori Gottlieb, the author of Maybe You Should Talk To Someone and co-host of the...
A Genghis Khan for the modern age
Genghis Khan is reputed to have fathered between 1000 and 2000 children. It is estimated that 1 in 200 men alive today carry his genes....
60 Australian kids conceived with sperm donor who used at least 4 aliases
Participants at a picnic for lesbian mums in Australia discovered that the same sperm donor was the biological father of many of their children. The...
Canada moves toward euthanasia for children
Canada is moving rapidly towards an even more permissive euthanasia regime. A report by the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying to Parliament...
Do Americans support embryo testing for complex traits like IQ?
Americans are surprisingly supportive of embryo testing for traits such as intelligence, according to an article in the leading journal Science by a group of...
Bogus psychiatrist in UK evades detection for 20 years
A woman in England has been found guilty of medical fraud after practicing as a psychiatrist for 20 years without a medical degree. Judge Hilary...
Do ‘conscientious providers’ matter more than ‘conscientious objectors’?
Dov Fox, an expert on health law and bioethics, has written a blistering attack on conscientious objection and a defence of “conscientious provision” in the...
Bioethicist protests that ‘whole body gestational donation’ is misunderstood
Bioethicists have chosen a lonely and disheartening profession. Locked away in an office, they pound out publications which only a few hundred of people –...
Mass confusion
Massachusetts politicians who proposed that prison inmates could reduce their sentences if they donated organs have retreated from their original proposal. BioEdge was one of...