Trump’s health department takes a pro-life turn
A new strategic plan defends life from conception to natural deathThe new strategic plan for the US Department of Health and Human Services has accomplished...
‘Human dignity’ is not ‘useless’
Even if bioethicist object, patients complain that they are not treated with dignity. So it must mean something Few concepts are more disputed in bioethics...
If Trump moves on bioethics, what kind of commission should he create?
There are at least two different schools of thought: consensus commissions and non-consensus commissionsToday is October 14. Two hundred and sixty-seven days have passed since...
The emerging technology of ‘synthetic embryology’
Scientists are facing whole new set of ethical issues Although experimentation on human embryos is tightly controlled in the United States. American scientists may have...
Gene of the week: divorce
If divorce is genetic, counselling has to changeDivorce does seem to run in families. Children whose parents were divorced have a higher risk of divorcing...
Nine out of ten Quebec caregivers support MAiD for the demented – new study
A new study claims that 91% of Quebec caregivers agree with MAiD for the demented. A new study claims that nine out of ten Quebec...
Michigan mother jailed for refusing to vaccinate child
A 40-year-old Michigan anti-vaxxer has been sentenced to seven days jail. A 40-year-old Michigan woman has been sentenced to seven days jail after disobeying a...
Go gentle?
The drugs used for executing American prisoners and the drugs used for assisting suicide are more or less the same. Do they guarantee that patients...
Will assisted suicide always provide a quick and gentle death?
No, sorry, not alwaysThe gold standard for human experimentation is a randomly-assigned double-blind placebo-controlled study. Unfortunately, organising such a study to assess the effectiveness of...
British man with motor neurone disease loses fight for assisted suicide in UK court
Challenge to Suicide Act 1961 failsA British court has once again supported a ban on assisted suicide. Noel Conway (see here for previous BioEdge stories),...
Religions and embryos
From ensoulment to reincarnationAn special feature in the journal Development lists the attitude of various religions towards human embryos. Author William Neaves writes “How religions...
Bioethics in Nobel for Literature
Kazuo Ishiguro discussed cloning and organ donation in his 2005 novelThe 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to British-Japanese novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, one...