Should doctors force-feed him? Is it unethical to force-feed hunger strikers? Many ethicists regarded force-feeding of detainees at Guantanamo as tantamount to torture. But in...

Transplant industry could return Filipino Rommel Villanueva, 30, once had a spare healthy kidney. It is now gone, transplanted into a foreigner who paid US$60,000....

Illegal organ transplant hub caught At least seven people have been charged with participating in a Kosovo-based organ-trafficking ring that sold the kidneys and other...

More organ trading nightmares The largest private hospital group in South Africa has admitted to receiving 3.8 million rand (US$550,000) from an illegal organ trafficking...

Woman will be mother and aunt of the same baby Reproductive technologies are leading to more and more complicated family relationships. Now an unnamed woman...

Disciplinary hearing of Michael Kamrava The disciplinary hearing of the doctor who treated OctoMom, Nadya Suleman, gives some revealing insights into the way fertility specialists...

Even in Turkey, there have been problems with IVF treatment After a recent report in BioEdge about a tragic IVF blunder in Singapore, Professor Nüket...

But Parliament will still votetags : Scotland A committee of Scotland’s Parliament has recommended by a vote of 5 to 1 that a bill to...

Hi there, A musical about euthanasia? When I first heard the news, I thought the director was trying to upstage Mel Brooks’s slapstick comedy The...

Committees overworked. An English translation of the government report on 2009 euthanasia cases in the Netherlands has been released. It includes the statistics about reported...

Gunther von Hagens at it again. After commercialising the human body with lurid exhibitions of plastinated corpses, the controversial German anatomist Gunther von Hagens has...

But everything in Bollywood is musical   It had to happen: a musical about euthanasia. Of course, nearly every film coming out of Bollywood is...