Duterte vows to roll out contraceptive plan in Philippines
President wants to halve poverty The President of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, has vowed to ensure that there is “zero unmet demand” for contraception in...
First British man to give birth
'I'm going to be the greatest dad' In one of most head-scratching stories so far this year, a British woman who began living as a...
A doctor at the centre of the capital punishment debate
Dr Carlo Musso explains why he cooperates Emergency physician Carlo Musso is the President of CorrectHealth, a Georgia-based company with 400 employees which provides medical...
Waste not, want not
Transplant surgeons in Belgium and the Netherlands are already harvesting organs from patients who have requested euthanasia. Could this happen in Canada, the new kid...
Canadian bioethicists call for organ donor euthanasia
Safeguards would be needed Well, that didn’t take long. Euthanasia became legal in Canada in June and by December Quebec bioethicists had already published an...
Sperm and eggs grown in a Petri dish could revolutionise reproduction
Experts argue that we have to be prepared The imminent arrival of eggs and sperm grown from skin cells makes legislative change imperative, three Ivy...
Dutch IVF clinic tries hard, could do better
26 women may have received wrong sperm The eggs of 26 women at a Dutch IVF clinic may have been fertilised with the wrong sperm....
Destination Laos: the ever-changing surrogacy business changes again
Business shifting operations to another lightly regulated country The dreary design of the website and Facebook page of Find Surrogate Mother (aka surrogacy inc) makes...
“Anti-psychiatry” gets official recognition at U of Toronto
Creates controversy in Canada An institute at the University of Toronto has established the world’s first scholarship for anti-psychiatry. Bonnie Burstow, an anti-psychiatry activist, has...
Spain, organ donation champion of the world
Good organisation is the key Spain is leading the world in deceased organ donation. An article in the American Journal of Transplantation explains how this happened. In...
Ohio makes assisted suicide a felony
It will be punishable by up to five years in prisonThe Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio While several states in the US have passed legislation...
Finland set to debate euthanasia
The Finnish Medical Association remains opposed A citizen's initiative to raise the issue of euthanasia in the Finnish Parliament (Eduskunta) has passed the requisite 50,000...