US pets get better shot at treatment than people
Stem cells for dogs? America’s pets receive better medical treatment than many Americans do, according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to...
IVF babies may have slightly higher cancer rates: study
IVF may cause illness later in life One of the initial concerns about in vitro fertilisation when it was first devised over 30 years ago...
Sniff detector” could allow locked-in patients to communicate by breathing
Sniffs are a “good, fast trigger” Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, are testing a “sniff detector” that picks up pressure...
Ad agencies compete for best compulsory euthanasia advert
The Gruen Transfer does a daring experiment. Now for something COMPLETELY different – two advertisements for compulsory euthanasia. Not the garden-variety voluntary euthanasia that...
the new science of morality
Hi there, One area that we would like to cover more thoroughly in BioEdge is how some bioethicists are adapting their ethics to scientific developments....
The new morality of neuroscience
David Brooks is fascinated by a scientific explanation of good and bad The New York Times’s resident conservative, David Brooks, is clearly intrigued by a...
Eggsploitation
New documentary from Center for Bioethics and Culture The infertility industry in the United States has grown to a multi-billion dollar business whose main...
May doctors ethically retrieve eggs from comatose women?
Intriguing case at MGH In 2008 doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital were presented with a novel ethical dilemma. A 36-year-old woman had collapsed on an...
Revise US sperm donor regulation, say bioethicists
Insuperable barriers to complete knowledge Do donor-conceived children have a right to know their origins? Vardit Ravitsky, of the University of Montreal, and Joanna E....
First full-face transplant turns heads
Revolutionary treatment A team of 30 doctors has announced that they have successfully performed the world’s first full-face transplant on a man whose face was...
Man wants to donate his organs, now
Wants to save “five to ten people” A man from Georgia’s west Cherokee County is seeking to end his life in a bid to grant...
Hundreds of IVF embryo donations “without consent”
Spanish “embryo adoption scheme” Hundreds of leftover IVF embryos from British couples have been given away to other people without their knowledge or explicit consent...