Should aesthetic surgeons give patients an ‘alienized’ look?
Could it lead to mental illness? A normal face (left) and a digitally manipulated visage (right) showing the “alienized look” DR. STEVEN HARRIS/HARRIS CLINIC Cosmetic surgeons...
Online conference to discuss alleged organ harvesting in China
Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting claim that it affects Falun Gong members Critics of alleged organ harvesting are maintaining their relentless campaign against the Chinese...
Czech Republic to compensate Roma women for forced sterilizations
The illegal procedures happened before and after Communism Prague The Czech Republic will compensate Roma (Gypsy) women who were forcibly sterilised both before and after...
Is wokeness invading American medical schools?
Is the notion of sex just socially constructed? In a case reported in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2019, a transgender man (a...
Seattle biotech bypasses regulators to test controversial dementia treatment
CEO wants to jump-start a promising gene therapy Elizabeth Parris A Seattle biotech company has bypassed US regulators and sent six volunteers with dementia to...
Does the world need another international treaty to deal with future pandemics?
23 leaders say that the world needs to be prepared Even as nations struggle to cope with Covid-19 catastrophes, 23 world leaders have called for...
US needs a vaccine mandate, says Ezekiel Emanuel
Otherwise it might not be able to achieve herd immunity Vaccine mandates are extremely controversial but bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel, a veteran of the Obama Administration...
Japan tries AI matchmaking
Another desperate attempt to raise the country’s fertility rate The phrases “artificial intelligence” and “high hopes” are yoked together in many headlines. AI promises a...
China uses AI to create facial recognition surveillance of Uyghurs
The facial recognition system is programmed to send “Uyghur alarms” to the police According to leaked documents revealed in the Washington Post, Huawei, China’s giant...
Japan suicides spike during pandemic
Women have been disproportionately affected More Japanese have died from suicide in October than from Covid-19 in the whole year. "We didn't even have a...
Does the autonomy principle work for substance abusers?
Relationships and empathy are far more important Autonomy is the fundamental principle of contemporary bioethics – or most of it. In moral dilemmas, the path...
Election takeaways
What you may have missed in the nightly news The result of America’s 2020 presidential election is still unknown. It seems that Joe Biden has...