Local health services in low income countries and women of reproductive age are the little-publicised victims of booming demand for cheap assisted reproduction from people...

An American diplomat is to investigate whether Kosovo’s prime minister was involved in trafficking organs from murdered Serb prisoners. An American diplomat is to investigate...

Bangladeshi police have uncovered a major organ trafficking ring that has allegedly persuaded up to 200 people to sell their kidneys for cash. Bangladeshi police...

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US researchers violated ethical boundaries when they deliberately infected Guatemalan prisoners, mental health patients and prostitutes with sexually transmitted diseases in a 1940s research project,...

One of Taiwan’s best hospitals has admitted that organs infected with HIV were mistakenly transplanted into 5 patients after a hospital worker misheard the donor’s...

Interested in the bioethics of pandemics? Triage? Duty of care? Quarantine? Informed consent? Resource allocation? Contagion, the latest epidemic disaster movie, might be a good...

I stumbled across a provocative article in MIT’s Technology Review the other day – even though it dates back to 1967. Nobel Prize laureate Joshua...