JAMA debates assisted suicide
Legalisation in California has put it on the agenda everywhere. The latest issue of JAMA showcases the views of leading American doctors and lawyers on...
Half million at risk of female genital mutilation in US, says report
... but no figures on how many have actually experienced it. Jaha Dukureh, American campaigner against FGM US government statistics show that more than...
First euthanasia case in Quebec
But not without legal complications At least one person and perhaps three have been euthanased in Quebec since the Canadian province’s legislation went into effect...
The dark past of progressive eugenics
Some of the best minds in the US and Britain were in favour of purging the “race” of “defectives” in the early 20th century. The...
Complications of “effective referral”
Sixty years after, Nazi cogs in the machine are still being put on trial. Arrival of Hungarian Jews at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944 Whether doctors...
Male pregnancy a real possibility
If uterus transplants are possible, why can't transgender women get them? The idea of male pregnancy was once reserved for comedy (remember the pregnant Arnold...
Surrogacy comes to Vietnam
But only for married couples. Vietnam's Deputy Minister of Health cradles the country's first surrogate baby at a hospital in Hanoi As Thailand closes...
Embryo custody battles on the rise
Right-to-life campaigners have found a new cause. In recent years more and more couples quarrelling over embryos from the sunnier days of their relationship have...
Catastrophic result in clinical trial in France
One man is brain dead and six others are in critical condition after a stage-one trial. One man has been pronounced brain dead and another...
How much treatment do heroin addicts deserve?
American heart surgeons refusing surgery to heroin addicts who present repeatedly with drug-induced heart valve infections. American heart surgeons are making the difficult decision not...
Another controversy over futile care in Texas
A hospital committee authorises discontinuation of life-sustaining treatment. Chris Dunn in hospital bed before Christmas Medical ethicists have clashed over the death of Chris...
Looking for a job in cancer research?
In his State of the Union address President Obama announced a cancer moonshot: an ambitious plan to cure cancer. "The same kind of concentrated effort...