Illegal group ferrying Britons to Zurich to die
A former head of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society in the UK has set up a secret group to subsidise travel to a Swiss suicide clinic....
Living wills won’t save money
The US Health and Human Services Secretary has been forced to clarify his proposal to use living wills to slash the soaring cost of end-of-life...
US animal rights activists target medical labs
Some animal rights activists in the US are becoming increasingly radical, according to a report by Associated Press. Last month, in a typical incident, extremists...
Correction
In last week's newsletter, BioEdge 159, we inadvertently muddled the name of the chair of the British inquiry into the Shipman murders. She is Dame...
ABI in the media
by Michael Cook, The Australian, May 23 IN BRIEF: Medical errors; Surrogacy; Medical errors: About 98,000 Americans die each year because of medical mistakes,...
Call to prosecute “criminal” Israeli doctors over human experiments
A leading Israeli doctor and bioethicist has called for the prosecution of olleagues who did thousands of unauthorised and illegal experiments on children and old...
Chinese scientists ignoring informed consent procedures
Chinese medical researchers often ignore basic standards of ethical oversight in their rush to conduct experiments. A report in the leading journal Nature claims that...
Get tough on ethics education for doctors, says UK judge
Medical students should be weeded out if they fail to meet ethical standards, the chair of the British inquiry into the Shipman murders has told...
Only bigots will oppose cloning, says Savulescu
Australian bioethicist, Julian Savulescu, of Oxford University, has argued that rejecting the possibility of human reproductive cloning is a form of discrimination akin to racism...
Transplant surgeons ignoring long-term health of US donors
Although almost half of the people who donate organs in the US are living donors, there has been no systematic tracking of their health to...
Most Dutch paediatricians favour child euthanasia
A survey of 63 Dutch paediatricians has found that up to 60% would give children a lethal injection if they were in pain from incurable...
San Francisco to be HQ for California’s stem cell institute
Visions of a biomedical boom are floating around San Francisco after the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine announced that the city had been selected as...