Taking moral bioenhancement seriously
Oxford’s utilitarian bioethicist Julian Savulescu, with others, has proposed what they call moral bioenhancement – achieving moral outcomes with the help of drugs, genetic engineering...
Nitschke tells medical board to go to blazes
Burns practicing certificate and announces plans for a right-to-die campaign It took only a month for Australia’s leading right-to-die activist to tire of life without...
Indian doctor sues husband over pressure to abort twin daughters
An attempt to highlight the on-going scandal of gendercide. A woman doctor in India has sued her husband and a hospital for pressuring her to...
Should British surrogates be paid?
The law needs an overhaul, but the solutions will probably not include commercial surrogacy. Sydney Morning Herald /Simon Bosch There appears to be...
Run that past me again: forced-feeding is not OK in Guantanamo, but is OK in nursing homes?
A scathing attack on the practice of force feeding elderly patients in the New York Times A US medical academic has made a scathing attack...
Victoria’s sperm donor anonymity overhaul
Many sperm donors are angry that ta guarantee of anonymity will be removed by retrospective legislation. The government of the Australian state of Victoria may...
Concerns over proposed changes to consent in US research
The HHS is suggesting changes in the use of biospecimens, supervision of multicentre studies, and ethics oversight for trials not involving invasive interventions. Concerns have...
CRISPR-mania in China
Dozens, if not hundreds, of Chinese research hubs are using the CRISPR technique on a range of animals. The new CRISPR as a technology only...
Pink Viagra sales tank
A few weeks ago "pink Viagra", more properly known as Addyi, got a green light from the FDA. The drug purports to treat “hypoactive sexual desire...
Medicos a ‘military target’ in Syria
95% of doctors have fled, been detained or killed in the besieged eastern city of Aleppo. The war in Syria has taken a massive toll...
The case for banning smoking
In an article published this week in the Journal of Medical Ethics, two ethicists make the liberal case for banning smoking. Liberalism has led to...
Some things never change
In spite of promises for reform, the Chinese government is still using the organs of harvested prisoners. Hopes for a reform in China’s organ donation...