More research needed on the Pill-brain nexus
Why don't we know more about the neurological effects of the contraceptive Pill? If there is one request by patients which is universally spurned by...
Does religion have a role in bioethics?
The notion that religious convictions have no place in medicine or bioethics is widespread and growing. The notion that religious convictions have no place in...
Getting ahead in life
Head transplants are a familiar theme in B-grade sci fi films which lends itself to an infinitude of excruciating puns. Head transplants are a familiar...
The Ice Age cometh
One bioethicist has offered a thoughtful defense of what many claim is a scientific flight of fancy. Cryonics – or preserving the body or brain...
Thailand outlaws foreign surrogacy
Thailand has passed a law to outlaw the use of Thai surrogates by foreign couples. Thailand has passed a law to outlaw the use of...
Refugees: be vaccinated or be turned away
The Pakistani government has made safe-haven for refugees conditional on receiving polio vaccinations. In the fight to end polio, the Pakistani government has for the...
US states tying psychiatrists’ hands over guns
The debate over psychiatrists’ confidentiality in treating people with mental illness has revived. After eight people were shot to death this week in rural Missouri,...
British mum in bid to give birth to child of dead daughter
A British woman wants to give birth via IVF to the child of her dead daughter. A British woman has entered a court battle so...
The noble lie
Hi there, I just came across an opinion piece in New Scientist by one of its feature editors, Michael Le Page. It’s not the sort...
Colombia may finally legalise euthanasia
The assisted suicide of American woman Brittany Maynard last year may have tipped Colombia into legalising euthanasia. The assisted suicide of American woman Brittany Maynard...
Professionalise surrogacy, say New Zealand academics
Two New Zealand academics have proposed that surrogacy become a profession like nursing or teaching which is fully integrated into the health system. Two New...
Paternity presumption threatens same-sex marriage
A legally-married lesbian couple in New Jersey are fighting requests for visitation rights from their two children’s biological fathers. Sheena and Tiara Yates ...