UK prisoner applies to father child with artificial insemination
Imprisoned drug dealer seeks IVF treatment for Thai girlfriend Hoping to start a family from his jail cell, a British drug dealer has asked for...
Grim window on kidney theft
Kidney kingpin is doctorImpoverished Indian labourer Mohammad Salim had one of his kidneys stolen headed up by a doctor whom the local media are calling...
Brain scan studies questioned
Reliability still in doubt Brain scans are being used experimentally for everything from testing political leanings to determining whether a prisoner is a psychopath to...
America’s new Dr Death
Used to teach medical ethics at Johns Hopkins University According to the latest issue of Newsweek, Jack Kervorkian has passed the baton of “Dr Death”...
Preimplantation genetic diagnosis oversold, say IVF experts
“A problem in the field of IVF”Preimplanation genetic diagnosis (or genetic screening) has become a standard service in IVF clinics around the world. In Europe,...
Shared lesbian motherhood defended
Spanish clinic outlines ethical value of its services A Spanish IVF clinic has published the first clinical report of helping lesbian couples to share biological...
A Southern Gothic lesson in bioethics
“Mercy killing” in TennesseeThis story about a “mercy killing” is straight from the Southern Gothic playbook used by novelists like Flannery O’Connor or William Faulkner....
Raffling life
A London IVF clinic raffles women’s eggs as a promotional stunt A London IVF clinic is raffling a woman’s eggs as part of a Mother’s...
Sexless in the city
Sydney man becomes first officially androgynous person A Sydney man has succeeded in having “sex not specified” placed on his government records -- which seems...
results of survey
March 12, 2010 Hi there, I promised that I would give you a bit of feedback on the survey of our readers. We were happy...
BMJ editorial backs castration of sex offenders
Disputed by Italian doctors Simmering away in the pages of the British Medical Journal is a debate over the merits of surgical or chemical castration...
Reprogramming not so simple, stem cell researchers say
Differences over stem cell potentials Are iPS cells better than embryonic stem cells? For anyone interested in the ethical dimension of regenerative medicine, this is...