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...
Will abortion increase maternal mortality?
In a widely-cited study, researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder found that a complete ban on all abortions in the United States will increase...
Are children capable of giving informed consent to puberty blockers?
Whether children with gender dysphoria can give informed consent to the medications need to block the onset of puberty is deeply controversial. Many articles have...
Chloe’s story: puberty blockers at 13, a double mastectomy at 15
The California State Assembly has been studying a bill, SB 107, to declare the state a sanctuary for minors who have been denied transgender -affirming...
After 49 years, SCOTUS strikes down Roe v Wade, abolishing a constitutional right to abortion
The US Supreme Court has struck down two of the most famous decisions in American history, Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which...
Fallen stem cell hero convicted in Swedish court
Once hailed as a stem cell technology pioneer, Italian surgeon Paolo Macchiarini has been convicted of causing bodily harm and given a suspended sentence in...
Hollywood actress explains why she chose surrogacy: ‘I was terrified’
Hollywood starlet Jamie Chung, 39, surprised her fans last year when she and her husband announced the birth of twins. It subsequently emerged that their...