Ariel Sharon enters fifth year of coma
Still unresponsive The world's most famous coma victim, former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, lingers on, according to an article in Arutz Sheva. Mr Sharon...
Media got it wrong about Belgian coma recovery man
Newsweek special investigation Late last year burst into the news an apparently comatose Belgian man who had languished 23 years in undiagnosed consciousness. But many...
IVF babies risk major diseases in later life
IVF associated with unhealthy epigentic changes Epigenetic changes in the DNA of IVF babies could make them more prone to diseases like diabetes and obesity...
Is Korea rejecting legal abortion?
Government running ads against abortion. For perhaps the first time, South Korea is debating abortion, to the great discomfiture of its gynaecologists. Unlike the US...
Is Korea rejecting legal abortion?
Government running ads against abortion. For perhaps the first time, South Korea is debating abortion, to the great discomfiture of its gynaecologists. Unlike the US...
OctoMom’s doctor may lose licence
California Medical Board alleges that he acted "beyond reasonable judgement" The fertility doctor who treated Octomom, the California woman who gave birth to octuplets last...
British surrogate to give birth to her eighth child
Not the record holder If any should know what surrogacy is all about, it is 45-year-old Jill Hawkins, a British woman who is pregnant with...
American public health professionals support assisted suicide
Surprising decision flew under the radar. A controversial 2008 decision by the American Public Health Association (APHA) to back "aid in dying" (ie, assisted suicide)...
Legalising assisted suicide threatens us, say disability advocates
Special issue of Disability and Health Journal If assisted suicide is legalised most of the people who will die are disabled. And American disability advocates...
Are dolphins persons?
Call for interspecies ethic Are humans the only persons on the planet? Two zoologists and an ethicist have created a stir in the silly season...
The fuzzy frontier of death
Why protocols for organ donation could change Since trends normally begin in the New York Times, an article about organ donation on December 16 may...
Another blast at “human dignity”
A straw in the wind for Canada’s euthanasia debate?The leading journal Bioethics has launched a stinging attack on the notion of dignity, especially in end-of-life...