What kind of pizza do you want with your baby?
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Fertility awareness campaigns backfire
The unintended consequence of vigorous campaigns to remind women that their fertility declines with age may be a rise in the number of abortions among...
China’s oldest mother
She gave birth to twins at 60 after IVF treatment. Here’s a story which draws together some of the hottest topics in the bioethics of...
US bioethics commission calls for ethics education in neuroscience
Calling for the integration of ethics into neuroscience, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues this week released the first of two volumes...
Leading figure in Belgian euthanasia to tour Auschwitz
The head of Belgium’s euthanasia oversight commission, Dr Wim Distelmans, will lead a study tour of Auschwitz in October. The head of Belgium’s euthanasia oversight...
Couples fall victim to surrogate fraud
Increasingly surrogacy services offer rich pickings for con artists.Increasingly surrogacy services offer rich pickings for con artists. In Britain this week a high-profile 28-year-old surrogate...
What’s the big deal with artificial intelligence?
Stephen Hawking recently wrote an article warning of the dangers of artificial intelligence. Nobody seemed too concerned. Stephen Hawking recently co-authored an article in the...
‘Treat researchers with contempt’: new animal rights advert
A new animal rights advertisement has sparked controversy in Germany. It vilifies an animal physiology researcher from the University of Bremen, and calls upon the...
The ethics and science of prenatal testing for autism
Leading researcher Simon Baron-Cohen believes that significant obstacles, both scientific and ethical, remain before we can undertake prenatal testing for autism. Prenatal testing for autism...
Syrian government “systematically targets” medical personnel
The Syrian government has been systematically targeting medical personnel, according to a damning new report. In September last year BioEdge reported that combatants in Syria...
But that was in another country
Hi there, As the 50s recede into the rear-view mirror, for many people they become suffused with a nostalgic glow. But they had at least...
Austrian historians studying another informed consent debacle from the 50s
Another informed consent scandal from the 1950s: researchers deliberately infected hospitalised children with malaria. There seems to be an unending trickle of revelations from the...