Nitschke’s comedy act a damp squib
DAVID BARTHOLOMEW / The Telegraph Judging from early reviews of Australian euthanasia activist Dr Philip Nitschke’s sally into stand-up comedy, he should stick...
Nepalese men who sold kidneys are destitute after earthquake
Claims that they are too weak to work and rebuild their homesKidney vendors in Nepal exhibit their scars Although an article from the Kathmandu...
Disdain for bioethics ignites controversy
Steven Pinker's combative op-ed prompted many comments Harvard star performer and leading American public intellectual Steven Pinker has set the cat amongst the bioethicists. In...
Swiss court refuses to recognise surrogacy
Women and children are not commodities. Switzerland’s highest court has refused to recognise surrogacy. The Federal Court, which sits in Lausanne, was reviewing a case...
Court tussle over right to euthanase Dutch woman with dementia
The first time that an institution has refused to allow a patient to be given a lethal injection. Sorry, we missed this euthanasia story from...
Incoming World Medical Association head under a corruption cloud
But Indian urologist says he is completely innocent. Ketan Desai after his hearing at a courthouse in Lucknow on June 27 The World Medical...
Journalistic ethics at work
A team of a team of undercover freelance investigative journalists called the Center for Medical Progress has been making life miserable for abortion provider Planned...
Psychologists shaken by report on torture program
The leadership of the American Psychological Association implicated. The use of torture to extract information from terrorist detainees under the Bush Administration continues to reverberate....
You’ve heard of half-wits. How about 5%-wits?
How can people function normally with only a fraction of a normal brain? The comfortable certainty of having at least half a brain is unshakable....
Planned Parenthood under fire over use of aborted tissue
Undercover journalists make sensational allegations The use of foetal tissue in biomedical research has become an incendiary political issue in the United States. Four videos...
At last, someone with a plan for the silver tsunami
Outspoken media personality Katie Hopkins wants euthanasia vans for Britons. A TV show called “If Katie Hopkins Ruled the World” debuts next week in Britain....
A wild swing at bioethics
Steven Pinker delivers a stiff uppercut to the whole field. A luminary at Harvard who is one of America’s leading intellectuals has aimed a haymaker at...