Munich clinic spurns Russian and Belarus patients
According to the Geneva Convention, doctors should treat equally all non-comabtant patients, even if they are on the side of the enemy. How easy it...
US doctors transplant pig heart into human
Surgeons in the United States have implanted the heart of a genetically modified pig into a human patient in a global first, the University of...
The fine line between science students and ghouls
Commodification files. The widow of a 95-year-old Louisiana war veteran who died of Covid-19 was shocked to discover that her husband’s body – which he...
UK court upholds legality of aborting Down Syndrome babies
A woman with Down syndrome lost a court challenge against the UK government last week contesting the legality of abortion up until birth of a...
Medical students moonlighting as sex workers need support not judgement, says BMA
Another resolution was carried at the same BMA annual conference: that medical students moonlighting as sex workers should be shielded from censure by universities and...
China cracks down on cosmetic surgery to stop ‘appearance anxiety’
The Chinese government has been cracking down on conspicuous consumption and tall poppies in recent months. Billionaires have disappeared; movie stars have become unpersons; at...
What turns ordinary people into torturers?
Torturers are made, not born, researchers conclude Article 5 of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: “No one shall be subjected to...
Sex robots can offer the intimacy that the elderly disabled crave, says bioethicist
They are a way of helping human dignity Sex robots are needed for older people, especially older people with disabilities, according to an article in...