Royal College of Physicians goes neutral on assisted dying
An abrupt change from years of opposition In the UK, the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has adopted a neutral position on assisted dying following...
AJOB debates withdrawing and withholding
Bioethicists clash over whether they are ethically equivalent The current issue of the American Journal of Bioethics hosts a debate on whether withholding and withdrawing...
Aborted Alabama embryo sues for ‘wrongful death’
A first in US abortion wars In a major first in America’s never-ending war over abortion, an Alabama judge has recognised the legal rights of...
India police bust embryo smuggling racket
IVF clinics could be importing embryos from overseas Indian authorities are investigating a possible embryo smuggling and surrogacy racket after nabbing a Malaysian courier at...
Dame Mary Warnock, IVF ethics pioneer, dies aged 94
Her work laid the foundation for fertility and embryology legislation in the UK.British moral philosopher Dame Mary Warnock, a public intellectual who laid the foundation...
Will there be a moratorium on gene-editing?
A California family was outraged recently when their grandfather was told that he had very little time to live by a "robot", or rather, what...
Scientists split over value of moratorium on editing the human germline
After the Chinese scandal, there are renewed calls for a global halt Big Stock Photo Stem cell scientists have split over the future of genetic...
Is it ethical to have children as climate Armageddon approaches?
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez opens up a discussion with her followers Big Stock Photo New York’s celebrity Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently told her 2.7 million followers on...
The robot who will conceive your baby
British IVF pioneer predicts that robots will take over reproduction Big Stock Photos British IVF pioneer Simon Fishel has just published an autobiographical account of...
Spain puts prison psychology experiment on hold
Can prisoners give informed consent? Big Stock Photos The Spanish Interior Ministry has put a halt to psychology experiments on violent prisoners which involved stimulating...
Bedside manner 101: how to deliver very bad news
Probably not with a robot telepresence robot / Big Stock Photo A California family was shocked when Ernest Quintana, a 78-year-old man in intensive care,...
Memo to hospitals: prison wardens do not own their prisoners
An Alabama prisoner died after the warden issued a DNR Big Stock Photos Hospitals should check whether a person issuing a do-not-resuscitate (DNR) order...