Are patients being informed?Faced with a shortage of kidneys, surgeons are resorting to transplanting cancerous kidneys into desperately ill patients. Body parts from the elderly...

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Public consultation ends next week Fears that Britain might introduce a euthanasia law have been mounting since September when the Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir...

Children of the deaf oppose any kind of pre-natal diagnosis Thought experiments with new technologies, and especially new reproductive technologies, are grist for the bioethics...

NFL releases new concussion regulations After years of allowing players to return to the field after concussions, the US National Football League announced recently that...

Lawsuit over ballot to extend personhood prior to birth Abortion foes in Alaska want a referendum on the personhood of the foetus. It will state...

Not enough unannounced inspections After a series of scandals in the UK fertility industry, an official review of the conduct of the Human Fertilisation and...

Under pressure from Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo The Argentine government has authorised courts to order DNA samples to be taken from people to...

Stem cell scientst calls for mandatory participation A British stem cell scientist has called for mandatory participation in clinical trials because not enough people are...

NIH director defends research as ethical US regulators have approved 13 new lines of human embryonic stem cells which will be eligible for Federal funding...

Under pressure from Opposition The Quebec government has agreed to reopen the euthanasia debate. It plans to organise travelling consultations about assisted suicide after consulting...

Animal rights theorist calls for an "undignified bioethics" Ever since bioethicist Ruth Macklin published her famous BMJ article, “Dignity is a Useless Concept”, the notion...