Nazi euthanasia victims honoured in Bundestag
Commemorating the 300,000 who died in Aktion T-4 On January 27, Germany’s Bundestag commemorated the 72nd anniversary of the liberation of the inmates of Auschwitz...
Trump refuses to repudiate torture
... but defers to his Secretary of Defense, who does not believe in it The United States now has a President who believes in torture...
Doctor-assisted suicide could save Canada $140 million a year, study suggests
Euthanasia now has a financial impetus. Euthanasia could save the Canadian taxpayer C$139 million a year, health analysts believe. A study in the Canadian Medical...
Lack of women in peer review – how do bioethics journals fare?
Not to badly, actually. As commentators decry ‘sexism in academia’, it’s useful to consider how bioethics journals fare among peer-reviewed science journals. Generalised science journals,...
Euthanasia debate heats up in New South Wales
The euthanasia debate has intensified in New South Wales. The euthanasia debate has intensified in the Australian state of New South Wales, with reports from...
Scientists closer to growing human organs in pigs
US researchers reporting that they have created human-pig chimera embryos. Scientists have moved closer to growing human organs in animals, with US researchers reporting that...
Who’s a pretty boy then?
An extreme example of body modification. Sorry, we missed this story from late last year. A British man has reshaped his head to look more...
President Donald Trump
Donald Trump was a different sort of candidate and he gave a different sort of inaugural speech. It was short, sharp, divisive and isolationist, the...
Stem cells 1: ‘Be patient,” says Nobel laureate Shinya Yamanaka
Only a small portion of patients can be helped with stem cell therapyShinya Yamanaka / New York Times Japanese researcher Shinya Yamanaka won...
Stem cells 2: Was California sold a stem cell pup?
Most of the funds have been spent on building, not research The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine was created in 2004 after voters overwhelmingly supported a US$3...
Using patents to restrict harmful applications of CRISPR
As a complement to government policies The new CRISPR gene-editing technology is an incredible tool, but it could be used for ethically-troubling procedures like human...
Catholic healthcare in Colorado may clash with new assisted suicide law
Two systems have refused to cooperate The US state of Colorado has legalized assisted suicide, but its large Catholic hospital system is refusing to cooperate,...