Costa Rica becoming hub for global organ trafficking
Four doctors on trial A doctor being arrested in 2013 / The Costa Rica Star A trial of four doctors and their accomplices in Costa...
Coma victims, PVS patients, and waking the dead
Is a PVS patient really gone forever? A 35-year-old man who had been in a vegetative state for 15 years after a car accident has...
Organ donation and recipient information
Bioethicists are getting resourceful in their search to solve the organ donation crisis. How can we solve the shortage of organ donors? Clearly there’s no...
Ireland to vote on abortion in 2018
Ireland will soon vote on its controversial constitutional abortion restrictions. Ireland will vote in 2018 on whether to keep its controversial constitutional abortion restrictions, which...
When a ‘good death’ was often painful
Until the 19th century, pain was accepted as a normal part of dyingEdvard Munch, The Dead Mother and Child, 1897-9 Today, a primary goal of both...
Major US doctors group opposes physician-assisted suicide
The American College of Physicians, the second-largest physician group in the US, sends a resounding No.The American College of Physicians, the second-largest physician group in...
Bioethicists: get rich quick!
Apply for the Dan David prizeBioethics is a career in which financial rewards do not figure prominently. However, if you have made significant contributions to...
British childbirth doctors back decriminalised abortion
Now three major medical lobby groups support itThe professional body representing British obstetricians and gynaecologists has chosen to support the decriminalisation of abortion. The ruling...
Is a defence of female genital cutting possible?
Absolutist notions of human rights must be tempered by respect for cultural traditions, says German ethicistFemale genital mutilation (or circumcision, or cutting) is reviled as...
Spanish researcher snagged in stem cell research fraud
Five papers have been retracted; one is in doubtThe biggest-ever fraud in Spanish science is coming to light – and like other recent frauds, it...
5% of Japanese babies from IVF
With the birth rate so low, the government is grasping at strawsThe latest figures show that 1 in 20 Japanese babies born in 2015 began...
20 years of assisted suicide in Oregon
The main reason for requesting aid in dying, overwhelmingly, is lack of autonomyOregon’s Death With Dignity Act (DWDA) is the benchmark for proposals for assisted...