German nurse killed at least 85 patients
We may never know how many Niels Hoegel A former German nurse who liked to put patients into cardiac arrest because he enjoyed the feeling...
Editing human genome may have done more harm than good
It is still dangerous to introduce mutations into the human germline He Jiankui A genetic mutation that Chinese scientist He Jiankui attempted to create in...
Assisted suicide could be legalised in Maine
The northeast state edges closer to legalising assisted suicide The Maine State House, in Augusta The state of Maine could be the next US jurisdiction...
When genetic tests are bombshells
What will they reveal about ‘misattributed paternity’? A senior British health official has reminded Britons of an bitter consequence of genomic medicine – misattributed paternity....
Surrogacy agencies move to Kenya
Poor, unregulated – what more could you want? The staff of Surrogacy Agency Kenya Kenya is becoming a major surrogacy destination now that India and...
Fertility tourism: Australians travelling to US to have ‘designer babies’
It could become legal in Australia within a few years Australian intended parents are spending A$20,000 to select the sex and eye colour of yet-to-be-born...
Black genocide
An interesting group within the American pro-life movement is African-Americans who oppose abortion. The Rev Clenard Childress Jr, for instance, is a New Jersey pastor who...
SCOTUS side-steps showdown over abortion
Clarence Thomas lectures the Court on eugenics and abortion This week the US Supreme Court touched the third rail – abortion – and lived. In...
Facial recognition banned in San Francisco
Invasion of privacy fears Facial recognition technology has been banned in San Francisco amid fears about the technology’s potential for oppressive surveillance. The action, which...
Allegations of organ harvesting in China persist
A German academic says that Falun Gong members are being killed to supply a growing market The presence of at least 1 million Muslim Uighurs...
Is it ethical for doctors to use anatomical illustrations produced by Nazis?
Some of the best human anatomical illustrations are from Nazi doctors. A new article in the journal Surgery discusses the ethics of using anatomical illustrations...
An evolving view of conscience
How will Patricia Churchland’s views affect the debate about conscientious objection? Conscientious objection must be one of the hottest topics in bioethics at the moment....