Oxford animal research lab opens
After a turbulent five years Oxford University’s controversial £18 million ($28 million) animal research laboratory has finally opened. Construction began five years ago, but stopped...
Pope endorses organ transplants
... but refuses to take sides in controversy over dead-donor rule. Despite a simmering controversy over organ transplants, especially amongst Catholic bioethicists, Pope Benedict XVI...
Singapore to compensate kidney donors
... so long as it is not an undue inducement Singapore is to allow compensation for kidney transplants and for eggs. A government proposal has...
Singapore debates euthanasia
Health minister sparks controversyWill Singapore become the first Asian country to legalise euthanasia? After a speech by health minister Khaw Boon Wan a month ago...
Reshaping the bioethical landscape
The election of a fervently pro-choice president could bulletproof abortion rights in the United States. The electoral tidal wave which swept Democrat Barack Obama into...
Personhood amendment fails in Colorado
And in South Dakota and California, anti-abortion measures fail Colorado voters convincingly rejected a ballot initiative to give legal personhood to embryos right up to...
Assisted suicide passes in Washington
Second US state to pass controversial law The cause of assisted suicide made a significant breakthrough this week when voters in the northwest state of...
Stem cell initiative passes in Michigan
But are the days of embryonic stem cell research numbered? The red-hot political controversy which surrounded stem cell research during the Bush Administration seems to...
Women overrepresented as clients of Swiss suicide groups
Older people more often just weary of life rather than ill Two-thirds of assisted-suicide cases in Switzerland are women, according to a recent study of...
Take care of pets –or else
New animal welfare guidelines in UK The UK government has issued provisional guidelines for pet care: cats (28 pages), dogs (30 pages) and horses and...
Swiss suicide clinic attracting Britons
British woman loses bid to allow her husband to help her commit suicide A British woman dying of multiple sclerosis has lost her bid for...
Gynaecologist prescribes lethal drink for Dignitas clients
The decline of Christianity is one reason for the attraction of assisted suicide The gynaecologist who writes the lethal prescription for clients of Dignitas has...