MSF ordered off Nauru
MSF has called for the immediate evacuation of asylum seekers from the islandThe international medical aid organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres has been abruptly ordered off...
Documentary makes powerful plea for open access publishing
Many academics do not understand how the system worksNothing warms the cockles of the heart like righteous outrage, so quite a few readers of BioEdge...
The digital smart pill is not a magical answer, say researchers
“We need to know if smart pills are going to actually improve patients' lives” Enthusiasm for an emerging digital health tool, the smart pill, is...
One drug manufacturer’s moral universe
Sell for the highest possible price It’s important to establish an ethical framework before launching into debates on specific issues. And although he is being...
US insulin price hikes prove fatal for diabetics
Diabetics are rationing insulin injections. Price increases to insulin in the United States have sparked public outcry, with some reports suggesting that diabetics are now...
US psychologists to revisit ban on participation in interrogations
Some feel the ban went too farUS psychologists are returning to the debate over participating in military interrogations. After humiliating revelations that members of the...
China is struggling to undo a one-child culture
Authorities are now pro-natalist -- but Chinese society is not. In January 2016, the Chinese government formally abandoned its one child policy in favour of...
Why a London museum should return the stolen bones of an Irish giant
Some 250 years after his body was taken, it’s time to accord Charles Byrne the respectful burial he deservesIt has all the hallmarks of a...
CIA nominee refuses to call torture ‘immoral’
Senate urged to reject Gina Haspel as CIA director Should Americans brace themselves for more reports of torture in the war on terror? This is...
‘Right to try’ bills passed in US Congress: more harm than good?
The FDA has a real role to play and should not be sidelined On March 21, the US House of Representatives passed two Federal right-to-try...
President Trump is in ‘excellent health’
But people are still questioning his mental fitnessLike voters everywhere, Americans like healthy leaders. So the reassuring news that their President is "excellent health" was...
The ‘greatest pandemic in history’ did its deadly work 100 years ago
The ten myths about a flu which killed missions in and after World War IInfluenza victims near Fort Riley, Kansas in 1918. AP Photo/National Museum of Health...