Belgium rebuked over euthanasia management by European Court of Human Rights
After ten years in the courts, a Belgian man grieving over his deceased mother has lost a battle against his country’s euthanasia regime. Godelieva de...
English nurse charged with serial killing of newborns
A 32-year-old nurse is on trial for murdering five new-born babies and attempting to murder 10 others at a hospital in the west of England....
Canadian euthanasia: bill to protect doctors’ conscience rights fails
It wasn’t a terribly controversial and it was a private member’s bill, and it failed to make headlines in Canada or elsewhere. But it seems...
Medical students need to hear both sides of the abortion debate, says pro-abortion bioethicist
Something odd seems to be going on in the abortion debate in universities. In many places there isn’t one, complains Ezio Di Nucci, of the...
NEJM warns of increased intimate-partner violence after Dobbs and Bruen
The number of reasons to reject the reversal of Roe v. Wade continues to grow. In an opinion piece in the NEJM, perhaps the world’s...
US medical groups demand protection for paediatric transgender doctors and hospitals and gag for social media critics
Three medical organizations have written to US Attorney-General Merrick Garland demanding that he investigate misinformation, threats, and violence which have unnerved doctors and hospitals providing...
Does Giorgia Meloni have a bioethics program?
Giorgia Meloni, the leader of Fratelli d’Italia and Italy’s presumptive new prime minister, has views which must be sending a shiver down the spine of...
Nature’s mea culpa for promoting eugenics
Earlier this year, the world’s leading science journal, Nature, and its companion journals embarked upon a campaign to purge from their pages discrimination and inequality...
New protocol for death of organ donors makes doctors and bioethicists nervous
A new protocol for determining death for transplant surgery has created a controversy amongst surgeons and bioethicists. An article in MedPage Today subtitled “Is it...
Denmark to investigate shameful campaign of population control in Greenland in the 60s and 70s
Between 1966 and 1975 Danish doctors implanted intrauterine devices (IUSs) in half of the indigenous women in Greenland to promote health and to stop the...
Victoria’s euthanasia deaths increase 31%
The number of Victorians using voluntary assisted dying has increased by 31% in a single year, despite the Covid-19 pandemic. In the year to June...
Transgender medicine standards group authorizes hormones for 9-year-olds
The leading professional group for transgender medicine has released updated standards for treatments which remove age limits for puberty blockers and sex-change surgery. In its...