ChatGPT has many uses. Experts explore what this means for healthcare and medical research
The sanctity of the doctor-patient relationship is the cornerstone of the healthcare profession. This protected space is steeped in tradition – the Hippocratic oath, medical...
Canada moves toward euthanasia for children
Canada is moving rapidly towards an even more permissive euthanasia regime. A report by the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying to Parliament...
Bogus psychiatrist in UK evades detection for 20 years
A woman in England has been found guilty of medical fraud after practicing as a psychiatrist for 20 years without a medical degree. Judge Hilary...
Do ‘conscientious providers’ matter more than ‘conscientious objectors’?
Dov Fox, an expert on health law and bioethics, has written a blistering attack on conscientious objection and a defence of “conscientious provision” in the...
A Japanese professor at Yale floats the idea of mass suicide for the elderly
With a fertility rate of about 1.3 children per woman and a third of the population over 65, it seems inevitable that some Japanese should...
Being declared dead when you’re still alive – why these very rare events occur
Stephen Hughes, Senior Lecturer in Medicine, Anglia Ruskin University An 82-year-old woman who was recently pronounced dead at a New York nursing home was later...
Seeking an ethical way to support pro-abortion doctors in anti-abortion states
The landscape of conscientious objection has changed. Back in 2006, when abortion was legal across the United States in the decades after Roe v. Wade,...
Colombian euthanasia cases rise steeply
Although its legal status is murky, cases of euthanasia have been rising steadily in Colombia of the past 7 years. According to the right-to-die group...
Call for Australian sperm donor registry to prevent incest
A lobby group for Australian donor-conceived children has called for a national database to track donors to prevent accidental incest. More and more women are...
New frontiers in organ donation: from DDR to ODE to LVOD
After Organ Donor Euthanasia (ODE), what’s next? Living vital organ donation (LVOD) – giving your heart away even though you aren’t ill or dying. Apologies...
Terrifying account of transgender clinic in American clinic by whistleblower
Rachel Levine is an assistant secretary at the US Department of Health and Human Services and the most senior transgender official in the Biden Administration....
Judicial ping-pong leaves Portugal without a right-to-die law
For the second time Portugal’s Constitutional Court has rejected a right-to-die law because its wording is “intolerably vague”. The bill has been returned to Parliament...