Are brain dead patients really dead?
Dead donor rule under threat Doornails and dodos are certainly dead, either because they were never alive or because they stopped breathing in the 17th...
Indians could get half-price rail tickets if they donate relative’s organs
Minister steers country towards presumed consent system India will slowly move towards a presumed consent system like Spain’s, if Health Minister A. Ramadoss has his...
China to adopt ‘brain death’ standard
Could lower national medical billChinese transplant surgeons will soon be able to harvest organs from brain dead patients more easily. The Vice Minister of Health,...
Half of your happiness is genetic
Genes control half of the personality traits that make people happyMore news from the "it's all in your genes" approach to human behaviour. British and...
Surrogacy industry needs regulation, claims Indian broker
Exploitation always a concern India is becoming an economic superpower, supported in part by its huge outsourcing industry. One sliver of this is “reproductive outsourcing”,...
UK animal rights activists export harassment to Continent
Crackdown may be forcing them to seek a "soft touch" Stem cell scientists are not the only ones to go overseas to seek more permissive...
Is sex selection becoming another option in the US
Los Angeles Times article fails to question ethical issue Sex selection is becoming normalised in the US, claims Slate columnist William Saletan. He was commenting...
Bioethics on the campaign trail
Barack Obama reflecting on the Terri Schiavo controversy Bioethics has hardly been on the radar so far in the US presidential campaign. All three major...
British IVF clinics duped by desperate mothers-to-be
Bypassing the consent of their partners A British woman duped an IVF clinic twice and gave birth to two children without the consent of her...
Washington gears up for debate on assisted suicide
Cheque for $200,000 comes from Oregon Supporters of assisted suicide in the US state of Washington are gearing up for a campaign for legalisation, culminating...
Dangers of antibiotics for elderly demented
But who suffers? the patient or society? Say your 90-year-old severely demented grandmother in a nursing home has pneumonia. She has a fever and she...
What are real risks for kidney donors?
Have they been understated? Zell Kravinsky is a poster boy for bioethicist Peter Singer’s theories of utilitarian altruism. A real estate magnate, he gave away...