UK mother asks for daughter’s life support to be withdrawn
Should food and water be removed from unresponsive patients? The cases in the newspapers nearly always feature dramatic conflicts between a flint-hearted medical bureaucracy wanting...
Expert urges caution before “jumping on euthanasia bandwagon”
Bioethics expert Megan-Jane Johnstone, of Deakin University, has said there are reasonable concerns why health advocacy organisations should not take a definitive position on euthanasia....
Swedish doctor charged with mercy killing
A Swedish paediatrician originally cleared in the 2008 mercy killing of a terminally ill infant will face charges of manslaughter, according to prosecutors in Sweden....
Duty calls for pole dancer employed by Bin Laden’s grandson
Another dispatch from the front lines of assisted reproduction: a British former pole dancer who miscarried Osama bin Laden’s twin grandchildren last year is pregnant...
Couple ordered to pay surrogate £568 per month for baby they’ll never see
Following up on a BioEdge story from February, a UK couple who lost their baby daughter to a surrogate mother have been ordered to pay...
UK commission calls for more widely available preconception genetic testing
The UK government’s advisory body on human genetics has recommended that preconception genetic testing for genetic diseases should be made more available in screening programs....
Mouse stem cells used to form a retina
A retina engineered in the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Japan could lead to treatments for human eye diseases, including some forms of blindness....
surrogate motherhood and the Daily Mail
Hi there, Drizzle or no drizzle, there are times when I wish that I lived in London – when I get my hands on a...
Political views are reflected in brain structure
A number of studies have found that there is a genetic or psychological basis for political preferences. Now reseachers at University College London, writing in...
Food and water are medical treatments, say Canadian ethicists
It is ethical to withhold and withdraw artificial nutrition and hydration (ANH) from children, says the Canadian Paediatric Society. In a bioethics position statement, it...
IVF mix-up mum to have twins with a surrogate
Another adventure in the Wild West of assisted reproduction. Carolyn and Sean Savage, of Ohio, had two boys conceived naturally and an IVF daughter. But...
Children of surrogate mothers are not French, court rules
A drama surrounding twins born overseas to a surrogate mother has raised hopes of legalising surrogacy in France. The nation’s highest court this week denied...