Japanese PM says that his country is falling off a demographic cliff
Japan’s Prime Minister has warned that his country will fall over an economic and social cliff unless it manages to reverse its population decline. “Our...
Loneliness, the silent killer
Doctors need to pay more attention to social isolation and loneliness (SIL) in treating patients, according to a “Perspective” article in the New England Journal...
Gentle giant’s skeleton removed from museum
Earlier this month the Royal College of Surgeons, in London, announced that it will remove from the display cases of the Hunterian Museum the skeleton...
Canada leads the world in organ donation euthanasia
Canada legalised euthanasia in 2016, long after Belgium and the Netherlands, but it is already the world leader in organ donation euthanasia. A survey of...
New horizons for surrogacy: ‘whole body gestational donation’
It is amazing that no one has ever discussed this at length before. What about all those brain-stem dead female bodies in hospital beds? Why...
Promises to keep: medical graduates and their oaths
A survey of oaths taken by medical students in the United States and Canada in 2014 and 2015 suggests that doctors are beginning their career...
Prince Harry on being a ‘saviour sibling’
The idea of a “saviour sibling” was a popular theme in the media a while ago. The idea was that after a couple had a...
Regulating dodgy stem cell clinics: FDA is appealing against ruling
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has decided to appeal a surprising decision after it lost a case it was fighting against a California...
Quebec euthanasia deaths the highest in the world
Quebec has become the jurisdiction with the highest proportion of deaths by euthanasia and assisted suicide in the world, according to Michel Bureau, president of...
Canada’s euthanasia program described as ‘dystopian’
Internationally, there is growing consternation at the rapid take-up of euthanasia in Canada. In Jacobin magazine, “a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist...
US FDA makes abortion pill easier to access
The latest battle in America’s abortion war is a policy shift by the Food and Drug Administration which will allow retail pharmacies to sell mifepristone,...
The gift that doesn’t keep on giving: non-existence.
The philosophy of anti-natalism refuses to die. In the latest issue of Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, Finnish bioethicist Matti Häyry renews the argument for...