The battle continues over the A-List embryos
Sofia Vergara and Nick Loeb continue to duke it out in the courtsIn happier times What began as soap opera is turning into a...
Nitschke ramps up campaign for unrestricted suicide
A new group, Exit Action, will take “a militant pro-euthanasia position” Philip Nitschke is one of the world’s most famous Australians, although he has recently...
Victoria to debate assisted suicide
Labor government to introduce legislation in second half of next year The Labor Government of the Australian state of Victoria will introduce legislation into the...
UK scientists to push for 28-day limit on cultivation of embryos
Fears of a slippery slope are unfounded, say researchers British scientists want to extend the amount of time that they can cultivate human embryos in...
Murky picture of IVF complications in UK
Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome can be fatal, but the statistics are confusing. Five years ago, a paper published in the BMJ came to the startling conclusion...
US Senate committee wants to ban ‘concurrent surgeries’
Questions raised about safety, transparency, patient care, billing and consent Late last year, the Boston Globe’s Spotlight team, which won a Pulitzer prize in 2003...
Doctor and nurse turn killers in Italian hospital
Is this nightmarish melodrama relevant to euthanasia? Doctors and nurses are the most trusted professionals, according to a UK poll earlier this year, just ahead...
Reflections on California’s assisted suicide legislation
California’s assisted suicide law came into effect on June 9. Betsy Davis, an artist with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, was one of the...
Trump’s changing views on torturing terrorists
He seems to have retreated from earlier enthusiasm for waterboarding During his campaign, President-elect Trump said that he would endorse waterboarding, a form of torture,...
Tom Price: Trump’s controversial pick as Health Secretary
He will probably be in charge of dismantling Obamacare Dr Tom Price, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services, has received...
Pressure mounts for commercial surrogacy in Australia
Online survey purports to show that most support it As clinics offering cheap surrogacy overseas shut their doors to foreigners, pressure is mounting in Australia...
Another abortion battle in Texas, this time over how to dispose of tissue
A policy of cremation or burial has become a major political and ethical dispute Disposing of aborted embryos has become a major political and ethical...