Patient sues US Catholic Bishop’s Conference
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing the US Catholic Bishops Conference (USCBC) for hampering the care of a pregnant woman in one of...
Scrap “luxury journal” system, says Nobel Prize winner
One of the recipients of this year’s Nobel Prize for Medicine has used it as a platform for a blistering attack on the whole system...
Calls for Virginia to compensate sterilization victims
Pressure is mounting on legislators in Virginia to compensate victims of its forced sterilization policy in the early years of the last century. Pressure is...
New details surface in UK forced delivery case
A number of important facts have come to light in the case of Alessandra Pacchieri, an Italian woman subject to a forced caesarean when visiting...
The tragedy of the lobotomized GIs
Sometimes it’s good to remind yourself that bioethicists are good guys to have around if your doctor is thinking about using you as a guinea...
Provocative new series in Journal of Medical Ethics
The Journal of Medical Ethics is constantly innovating in the selection and presentation of its material. The latest feature is “Author Meets Critics”, a series...
Govt bioethics commission releases report on incidental findings
A genetic test for breast cancer shows that a patient is not at risk. But the results also reveal that there is an elevated risk...
Anthropologist honoured for alerting world to organ trafficking
Anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes, of the University of California Berkeley, has been honored by the American Anthropological Association with its first ever Anthropology in Public Policy...
Rates of Alzheimer’s set to treble by 2050
The number of cases of Alzheimer’s disease is set to treble by 2050, according to the peak dementia research group, Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI). The...
Seventh revision of Declaration of Helsinki published
Next year marks the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Helsinki, the benchmark for ethical medical research on subjects. Next year marks the 50th anniversary...
Saudi Arabian and Chinese couple search abroad for surrogate mothers
Saudi couples who are unable to have children are employing surrogate mothers in Asia and Europe even though surrogacy has been condemned by the country's...
How much is that genome in the window?
The search for UK volunteers willing to ditch privacy and donate their genome and health data to science has begun with the launch of the...