Argentine doctors on trial for baby theft under right-wing junta
Two doctors and a midwife are on trial for their role for adopting out babies and "disappearing" their mothers. Mothers of "los desaparecidos" protesting in...
On the front lines of the war on Ebola
A field worker describes her day-to-day work. Three thousand US military and healthcare workers are being sent to West Africa to fight the Ebola outbreak...
Ebola in West Africa: the stakes rise
Wrapped into US President Barack Obama’s speech on the threat posed by ISIS in the Middle East was a commitment to send the US Army...
On the front line of the war on Ebola
The war on Ebola is creating heroes. The war on Ebola is creating heroes. The media have focused on Kenema Government Hospital (KGH) in Sierra...
Divergent approaches to treating Ebola
How to deal with the Ebola outbreak in West Africa seems to be splitting bioethicists. How to deal with the Ebola outbreak in West Africa...
Iran to boost birth rate by banning birth control
Iran is to ban vasectomies and female sterilization in an effort to reverse its plummeting birth rate Iran is to ban vasectomies and female sterilization...
“Cordon sanitaire” drawn around Ebola victims
Extraordinary measures are needed on a massive scale to contain the outbreak, says WHO. Bioethical debates about whether to administer an experimental drug for Ebola...
Ebola outbreak prompts ethical questions
The World Health Organisation has declared it an international public health emergency, although it has not suggested general bans on travel or trade. The worst-ever...
A psychiatrist who saved lives — with a gun
A psychiatric patient shoots dead his caseworker and takes aim at his psychiatrist.... Is this one of those “only in America” stories? On Thursday afternoon...
Botched execution sparks outcry in US
Another botched execution in the USA has reignited debate over the death penalty. Another botched execution in the USA has reignited debate over the death...
Veterans Affairs scandal stems from a crisis of ethics: bioethicist
The crisis in the the US Veterans Affairs Department is fundamentally a crisis of ethics, according to the former hospital ethicist at the Philadelphia Veterans...
‘Informed consent has become a fetish’ – American bioethicist
In a recent Hastings Centre Report article, bioethicist Barbara A. Koenig argues stridently against traditional informed consent models for genetic testing. Koenig believes that the...