Cruelty at home and abroad
Parents love their daughters and think that FGM is good for them, like British parents who sent kids to boarding schools. Here’s a potato so...
Clinton fumbles on end-of-life choices
No one had ever asked her about it before. Clinton's response is at 2.00 minutes After California, the biggest state in the US, legalized assisted...
Zika: still wrapped in mystery
Some reports suggest that the situation is far more complex than reports in the media suggest. This was a week of confusing information about the...
Edinburgh to host world bioethics conference
In the city of the Scottish Enlightenment Edinburgh is the venue for 2016 world congress of the International Association of Bioethics, whose theme is “Individuals,...
Skulduggery
I’m sure it’s just randomness and not something in the water, but often our newsletters seem devoted to a theme, be it euthanasia, or IVF,...
Stem cell shenanigans by a Casanova in the Karolinska
Celebrity surgeon Paolo Macchiarini under fire in Sweden and the USPaolo Macchiarini Is there something about stem cells which provokes highly competent scientists into...
Preparing for medicine with artificial gametes
The Nuffield Council has produced an intriguing white paper. Foreseeing bioethical problems is one responsibility of the UK think tank, the Nuffield Council on Bioethics....
Another euthanasia scandal in Belgium
Is autism grounds for a lethal injection?Tine Nys (centre) with her sisters Another euthanasia scandal in Belgium. Two sisters have complained on a television...
LA doctor gets 30 years for prescribing pain killers to addicts
Will this have a chilling effect on doctors?Hsiu-Ying "Lisa" Tseng A Los Angeles doctor has been sentenced to 30 years in jail for prescribing...
US military to offer sperm and egg storage
Part of making the military “family friendly” As part of its effort to make the US Department of Defense a more “family-friendly employer”, Secretary Ashton...
Zika, birth control and free abortion pills
As concern mounts about the spread of the Zika virus, groups around the world are suggesting radical measures for North and South America. As concern...
Three parent babies – but only males
The US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has recommended that US government allow mitochondrial DNA transfer in male embryos. The US National Academies...