Climate change analysis needs bioethicists
The Hastings Center convenes a seminar on “the greatest moral challenge of our time” With climate change often described as the greatest moral challenge of...
Pointed questions
It seems that President Trump and President Xi Jinping are best buddies again after mending fences at the G-20 summit in Osaka. They both want...
Underneath the mask
This week Governor Andrew Cuomo threw in his cards, beaten in his attempt to pass a law legalising commercial surrogacy in New York. He was...
Victoria has launched “assisted dying”
Government describes its law as “the safest and most conservative in the world” A Melbourne tram passes Flinders Street station Euthanasia and assisted suicide became...
Trump Administration turns the screws on abortion
Two developments have kept abortion and Planned Parenthood in the headlinesIt has been a bad week for legal abortion in the United States. Two developments...
‘Hypoactive sexual desire disorder’: a diagnosis looking for a drug
A new drug is launched to medicate womenThe controversial disorder known as hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD) is back in the news. Pharmaceutical companies have...
Our greying planet
A new UN population projection is lower than previous estimates Population growth can have an impact on controversial bioethical issues like abortion, contraception, aged care...
Sperm donors can be parents, says Australia’s High Court
Some men will be shocked by decision Australian sperm donors are slightly more hopeful or slightly more wary or slightly more perplexed after a landmark...
New York’s surrogacy bill fails at last minute
Governor Cuomo furious at chance to promote LGBT equalityLast week BioEdge reported that New York State was on the brink of legalising commercial surrogacy with...
US doctors vote to oppose assisted suicide
The American Medical Association has quashed a bid to adopt ‘neutrality’. An AMA delegate explains why In a move which has global repercussions, the American...
Russian biologist to create gene-edited human embryos
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Russian scientist plans to edit human germline
Scientists are outraged A Russian biologist has announced that he plans to create gene-edited human embryos. Molecular biologist Denis Rebrikov told Nature that he wants to...