Solving a healthcare crisis. Excuse me, what’s healthcare?
45,000 die each month in DRCTo put our healthcare and bioethics debate in perspective, consider the Democratic Republic of Congo. According to a report in...
Freezing sperm cells of 3-month-old boys
Treatment is still experimental. You've heard about women freezing their eggs so that they can have children later in life. Now doctors have frozen the...
Head of World Medical Association under fire
Accused of not opposing Israeli torture The Israeli president of the World Medical Association is under pressure to step down because he allegedly has turned...
Many British “clients” at Dignitas not terminally ill
Swiss group "cavalier", says doctor Many of the Britons who seek suicide in Switzerland with the help of the Dignitas organisation were not terminally ill...
Academic proposes Swiss suicide as model for US
Offers potential for demedicalising death While British doctors may be aghast at the suicide tourism in Switzerland, an American bioethicist has just published a learned...
The road ahead for Obama’s bioethics
More consultation is the future Now that the President’s Council for Bioethics has passed on to the bureaucrats’ burying ground, what will replace it? The...
Canadian “mockumentary” about women fathering children
Probably impossible, but thought-provoking Bioethics goes to the movies again. This time, it’s in a new Canadian film, The Baby Formula, about two lesbians who...
Delayed motherhood is “public health issue”
After 35, fertility falls off sharply, say British doctors Britain’s peak body for fertility doctors has described the rising ages of mothers in Britain and...
Pioneer in population ethics has misgivings
Daniel Callahan says that greying of population is worrying A pioneer in the ethics of population control is having misgivings. Daniel Callahan, one of the...
Obama disbands bioethics council
Sudden but expected The US President’s Council on Bioethics has been disbanded. Members were told last week that their services were no longer needed and...
The audacity of hope – can deliver big bucks
Biotech discovers how to make money out of rare diseases Drug companies make money by developing and marketing patented drugs for ailments like hypertension, ulcers...
New York allows compensation for research eggs
More benefit to society than donating for reproduction After "extensive deliberation", New York’s stem cell authority has decided to allow scientists to remunerate women who...