Shock! Horror! UK Euthanasia!
Alleging that 130,000 elderly patients are being euthanased each year by Britain's National Health Service takes a bold man. Repeating it uncritically takes a foolish...
The latest goss on infanticide
A Washington Post blog has announced that the editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics, Julian Savulescu, is preparing a special issue on infanticide. A...
First IVF mother dies
Lesley Brown, the woman who gave birth to the first "test-tube baby" in 1978, died this week after a short illness at the age of...
Full-contact bioethics
What sinks a job application also sinks a bioethics article. That is the conclusion to be drawn from a scathing review of an article in...
Bioethicist denounces silence on Taliban polio vaccine ban
Bioethicist Art Caplan has denounced international silence after a powerful Taliban leader in northern Pakistan banned the vaccination of 161,000 children against polio. Bioethicist Art...
Blackstone on suicide
Hi there, Of the study of the law I confess that I have lived many years in happy ignorance. However, the other day I happened...
Jehovah Witness who refused transfusion allowed to die in UK
Two cases involving Jehovah Witnesses who refused blood transfusions are in the news: a 22-year-old with sickle cell anaemia who died in the UK and...
Finger-lickin’ good is not a good enough reason
More chicken are killed by humans than any other land animal. This is morally wrong, argues an Australian bioethicist More chicken are killed by humans...
Serial killer dies in Irish jail after three years in a coma
A notorious serial killer and rapist died in an Irish jail last month at the age of 69 after spending more than three years in...
Canadian man wants sperm deal with lesbian couple voided
A Canadian man who donated sperm to a lesbian couple has said he signed a deal with them "under duress" is now demanding the courts...
Euthanasia campaigner fights for job while attending right-to die congress in Zurich
Euthanasia advocate Dr Philip Nitschke, founder of Exit International, fears he will lose his medical licence over his involvement in the death of an Australian...
Man donates kidney, gets no insurance
Radburn Royer, of Minnesota, donated his kidney to his daughter Erika after her lupus caused kidney failure. Now 31, Erika is fine, but her physically...