Canada topped 10,000 euthanasia deaths in 2021
There have been 0 deaths from monkeypox in Canada, but the disease has received considerably more media attention than the 10,064 people who died under...
Monkeypox is now a national health emergency in US
The Biden Administration has declared the monkeypox epidemic a national health emergency, following New York and the United Nations. There have been nearly 7,000 cases...
Whatever happened to transhumanism?
In 2004 the prominent political scientist Francis Fukuyama described transhumanism as “the world’s most dangerous idea”. In 2011 transhumanism was featured on the cover of...
Is human germline editing compatible with human dignity?
Human germline editing, whether it is for health reasons or for the more ambitious project of Transhumanism, is intensely controversial. International bioethics agreements ban or...
The opioid crisis isn’t just the Sacklers’ fault – and making Purdue Pharma pay isn’t enough on its own to fix the pharmaceutical industry’s deeper problems
You may have heard of the Sackler family and the role that they and their privately held company, Purdue Pharma, played in the opioid crisis....
The UK’s only gender clinic will close its doors
Halfway through her investigation into transgender medicine for children in the UK, Dr Hilary Cass has shut down the only gender clinic in the country,...
Swiss assisted suicide clinics complain about new regulations
The Swiss Medical Association’s new guidelines for assisted suicide have angered groups which provide this service for foreigners. The new guidelines make patients wait at...
Monkeypox is now a global health emergency
Fears of a monkeypox epidemic are spreading in the United States. The governor of New York state, Kathy Hochul, has declared it a statewide disaster...
Sperm donor makes his ‘royal progress’ in Queensland
Here is a real-life scenario begging for a novelist or a reality-TV producer. Adam Hooper is a 37-year-old man from Perth who has 2 children...
Killing prisoners for transplants: Forced organ harvesting in China
Organ transplantation is a life-saving therapy for millions of patients and one of the greatest successes of modern medicine. However, a limited supply of donor...
Is Singapore ready for mass production of eggs and sperm from stem cells?
Scientists have generated artificial lab-grown sperm and eggs from rats and mice, which have gone on to successfully produced healthy offspring, a procedure known as...
Spain: where the right to die can trump the right to justice
"I am paraplegic. I have 45 stitches in my hand. I cannot move my left arm well. I have screws in my body and cannot...