Vaccine mandates 3: are those deplorable anti-vaxxers ‘irresponsible idiots’?
If there are any words which Hillary Clinton could take back if she could live her life over again, it is this sentence from 2016:...
Austria legalises assisted suicide
As of New Year’s Day assisted suicide became legal in Austria. A ruling from the Supreme Court had declared that the former ban was unconstitutional...
World’s most prolific surrogate accidentally gave away her own child
Carole Horlock is probably Britain’s most prolific surrogate mother. She gestated and gave away 13 babies before hanging up her boots in 2012 at the...
One in six Australian elderly experience abuse
Almost one in six (14.8%) older Australians report that they have experienced abuse in the past 12 months, and only about one-third of them sought...
Meet the Tesla of assisted suicide: Sarco
With Christmas just around the corner, the perennial question is, what do you get for the man who has everything? How about a do-it-yourself 3D...
Dutch doctors given thumbs-up for euthanasia for dementia patients
The Royal Dutch Medical Association (KNMG) has released guidelines for the euthanasia of patients with dementia who have made a written advance directive. It will...
Quebec moving toward euthanasia for dementia patients
A government commission in Quebec has recommended the use of advance directives in euthanasia. In a report released this week, the committee says that "a...
Quebec anaesthetist fighting euthanasia allegations
Police blotter. Here is a case from Quebec which suggests two things. First, that Canada’s medical aid in dying legislation does not mean that doctors...
Extinction: good idea or bad idea? Answer in 25 words or less (time is limited)
The Good Book says: “And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence...
Francis Collins reflects on 12 years of leading NIH
Francis Collins is stepping down as director of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) after more than 12 years on the job. He was...
Does transgender medicine have a sound philosophical foundation?
There are many angles from which to study the phenomenon of the transgender movement – psychological, sociological, historical, medical, political … -- but surely the...
Folx, abortion is OK but transphobic pronouns are not OK
Dispatch from the Reproductive Revolution. Quinn Jackson, MD, (they/he) is a family medicine physician in Kansas City, Missouri, and a fellow with Physicians for Reproductive...