Informed consent in Netherlands: circumcision
Dutch doctors should discourage the circumcision of boys, even from Jewish and Muslim families, says the Royal Dutch Medical Association (KNMG), because children cannot give...
Report slams Israeli doctors’ complicity in torture
Some Israeli doctors have cooperated in the torture and mistreatment of prisoners, according to a report by two human rights organisations, Physicians for Human Rights...
Personhood amendment in Mississippi fails
Voters in Mississippi have decided that a fertilised egg should not be granted the legal rights and privileges of a child or adult human. Voters...
Top British hospital “tricked” into giving Italian woman abortion
In a troubling offshoot of medical tourism, an Italian woman flew to Britain to terminate her 28-week-old pregnancy and then flew home to Rimini in...
61-year-old IVF mum admits age limit should be 50
When Susan Tollefsen, 61, became one of Britain’s oldest first-time mothers by using IVF at age 57, she was widely criticised. When Susan Tollefsen, 61,...
Patients in vegetative state are often misdiagnosed: study
Patients in a vegetative state have intervals of wakefulness, but seem to be unaware of themselves or their surroundings, a Lancet study has found. Patients...
Refugees face organ theft at Sinai
Bedouin smugglers who engage in people trafficking are allegedly stealing organs from indigent refugees seeking to enter Israel without enough cash, according to a startling...
Euthanasing kings and queens
Hi there, I confess that my knowledge of Norwegian history is rather scant, so I was surprised to learn that a thoroughly English granddaughter of...
Alarm at proposal to scrap dead donor rule
Let’s scrap the fiction that most patients are dead when their organs are removed and allow doctors to take them from people who are still...
Was Norway’s Queen Maud euthanased?
You would think that having a personal physician would guarantee excellent health care. However, the trial of Michael Jackson’s doctor for involuntary manslaughter suggests that...
Bringing doctors who torture to justice
Doctors who participate in state-sponsored torture should be pursued with civil litigation, says an editorial in The Lancet. Although doctors have become an integral part...
One day, two surrogacy horror stories
Two surrogacy nightmares were reported in London’s Daily Mail on the same day last week, highlighting the fact that many risks are associated with the...