Introducing “In Depth”, our comment section
We have introduced a new feature in BioEdge this week. It’s a new section called “In Depth”, where we plan to feature commentary, analysis, background...
Struggling woman with dementia euthanised in Netherlands
Regional review committee questions consent and coercion. A Dutch euthanasia doctor has been rebuked by a Regional Review Committee after she gave a lethal...
Trump SCOTUS Nominee is ‘bioethicist’
Donald Trump’s new Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, is “a bioethicist” -- at least according to one article published after Trump’s announcement. Gorsuch, currently a...
Doctors told not to call pregnant women “mothers”
British doctors have been told not to call pregnant women ‘mothers’ in a BMA document. British doctors have been told not to call pregnant women...
Should doctors talk about Trump’s mental health?
Should psychiatrists and psychologists should share their opinions on political figures? During the 2016 US Presidential Campaign, BioEdge reported on the ethics of the psychological...
Leading Adult Stem Cell Researcher named Australian of the Year
Adult stem cell researcher Alan Mackay-Sim has been named Australian of the Year. A little over a decade ago Australia was fiercely debating the ethics...
Brain-computer interface allows completely locked-in people to communicate
Completely locked-in participants report being “happy”A female participant in the locked-in study A computer interface that can decipher the thoughts of people who...
Torture does not work, says trauma expert
But waterboarding is the most psychologically harmfulA Guantanamo Bay protest, with simulated water-boarding Scientists oppose President Donald Trump’s endorsement of torture, according to Science...
Nearly 100 psychiatric patients die of neglect in South African scandal
Scandal rocks nation Cost cutting in mental health is both difficult and dangerous, South African politicians have learned. The country’s health ombudsman has released a...
Has the UK reached a tipping point on assisted suicide?
The courts could force the government to act Could the United Kingdom soon see its blanket ban on assisted suicide (under section 2(1) Suicide Act...
POTUS and torture
It beggars belief that the leader of the free world and the world’s policeman, the President of the United States, thinks that torture is not...
Swedish midwife fights for her conscience rights
She was sacked for refusing to participate in abortions This week the Swedish Labour Court of Appeal heard the case of a midwife who has...