English coroners turn blind eye to assisted suicide, says report
Coroners are ignoring evidence of assisted suicide, claims an unofficial report on the link between chronic and terminal illness and suicide. “The Truth about Suicide”,...
New website gives info on US euthanasia initiatives
A new website opposed to assisted suicide and euthanasia brings together useful information about the status the law in the various American states. “Choice is...
Egg freezing blurs “experimental” label
For many women, freezing eggs is an uncertain business. Few women who have frozen their eggs a race against the clock have tried to use...
Who is watching the IRB watchdogs, asks Nature
A stinging editorial in Nature claims that for-profit institutional review boards need careful supervision to ensure that they are following protocols and protecting patients.A stinging...
Furore in Netherlands over refusal to conduct euthanasia funeral
But what happens when a religion does not accept euthanasia? This is being debated in the Netherlands after a Catholic priest in the small town...
Steep cost for a baby
Over the six years she was treated at a private fertility clinic, Colleen Aitken had her husband’s specially prepared sperm inserted directly into her uterus...
Presidential contender had experimental stem cell treatment
Texas Governor Rick Perry opposes embryonic stem cell research. The Republican presidential candidate has, however, shown an open mind toward treatments developed using adult stem...
California couple sue IVF doctor over ‘lost’ embryos
Alex Walterspiel and Melanie Waters, a married couple in their 30s, conceived their 3-year-old son through IVF and hoped to have a second pregnancy using...
“Fixed” – new documentary on transhumanism and disability
Filmmaker Regan Brashear recently screened a rough cut of “Fixed: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement”. Filmmaker Regan Brashear recently screened a rough cut of “Fixed:...
Chinese surrogates relocate to US
A Californian lawyer is facing jail for brokering 12 illegal surrogacies. But this is small change for Lu Jinfeng, a Chinese man who claims that...
The bioethics of extraterrestrial contact
Bioethics is a broad church, but a NASA-affiliated scientist and colleagues at Pennsylvania State University recently made it even broader by extending it to extraterrestrial intelligence...
A race against time for Down syndrome research
Is it possible to cure Down syndrome? Alberto Costa, a 48-year-old physician and neuroscientist at University of Colorado-Denver School of Medicine, thinks so. He has...