Are we morally obliged to participate in research?
Bioethics debates are often robust, but it’s not every day that they make a reader sick. This was the reaction of Professor Bill Gleason, of...
Nominations for a bioethics hall of fame
As part of a promotional interview in The Atlantic, Dr Jonathan Moreno was asked to nominate organisations and individuals for a “bioethics hall of fame”....
Pop culture, wealthy Chinese drive booming medical tourism in Asia
It’s one of the fastest-growing industries in Asia. It’s one of the fastest-growing industries in Asia. Despite global economic woes, medical tourism is booming. Hospitals...
Researchers call to end smoking in films
In a curious turn of moralising, UK researchers have called for films depicting smoking to be R-rated. In a curious turn of moralising, UK researchers...
Mississippi voters can decide on personhood of the unborn: ruling
Voters in Mississippi will have the chance to decide on the personhood of the unborn in November. Voters in Mississippi will have the chance to...
Disabled patients could “mind-meld” with robots
A new, noninvasive method for recording patterns of brain activity could give “locked-in” patients – the ability to interact with others and even give the...
Detecting hidden consciousness in vegetative state patients
Some patients previously thought to be unconscious are in fact aware of themselves and their surroundings, according to Dr Adrian Owen of the University of...
The future of memory-altering drugs
Give memory-altering drugs a chance, argues the editor of the well-regarded Neuroethics & Law blog. Adam Kolber, of Brooklyn Law School, writes in Nature that...
Ezechiel Emanuel moves to University of Pennsylvania
A bioethicist working in the White House who took much of the heat over “Obamacare death panels”, Ezechiel Emanuel, is moving to the University of...
Bulgarian parliament spurns euthanasia
The Bulgarian Parliament has rejected a euthanasia bill by a vote of 59 to 13, with 29 abstentions.The Bulgarian Parliament has rejected a euthanasia bill...
Removing the ethics from bioethics
The New York Times philosophy blog likes edgy topics like does truth matter, isn’t it all relative, and can we have morals without God? The...
Presidential contender had experimental stem cell treatment
Texas Governor Rick Perry opposes embryonic stem cell research. The Republican presidential candidate has, however, shown an open mind toward treatments developed using adult stem...