UK opens inquiry into abortion of disabled children
The UK parliament has begun a controversial new inquiry into abortion on the grounds of disability. The UK parliament has begun a controversial new inquiry...
Key stem cell guideline ignored in US
A review of human embryonic stem cell lines in the US has raised concerns about informed consent amongst gamete donors. After President Obama reversed his...
UK Down syndrome woman protected from sterilization
There is a growing push for greater rights for Down syndrome people – in particular that they be fully protected from forced sterilisation. A landmark...
Some Quebec doctors resisting drive for euthanasia
Some Quebec doctors are beginning to fight back against a drive for legalised euthanasia. Some Quebec doctors are beginning to fight back against a drive...
Belgian euthanasia: not such a big deal?
Trivialization is well and truly under way when Belgian euthanasia becomes the subject of TV chat shows. A stinging report by a Belgian bioethics think...
The Francis Report
Hi there, If you have the stomach for it, thumbing through the UK’s recent report on the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust is a fascinating...
UK report examines catastrophic failure at government hospital
Doctors, nurses, politicians, bureaucrats, patients and the public, in short, everyone in the UK, have been stunned by the results of two inquiries into dreadful...
Doctors slow to blow whistle
A lawsuit against the medical products giant Johnson & Johnson has raised questions about doctors’ willingness to warn colleagues and patients about bad drugs or...
German minister for education and research loses job in plagiarism scandal
To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, losing one minister because he plagiarised his PhD thesis is a misforture; losing two looks like carelessness. But this is what...
Inside the “fortress of death”
Dr Gunther von Hagens and his controversial Body Worlds exhibitions of plasticised human bodies and body parts have been out of the news for a...
French doctors endorse euthanasia
France’s peak medical body, the Conseil national de l'ordre des médecins (CNOM, the national council of the college of physicians) has endorsed euthanasia. This marks...
German sperm donor children gain right to know fathers
A German court has ruled that sperm donor children have a right to know the identity of their biological fathers. "The interest of the...