What the world needs now is more bioethicists. Or not?
In a recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, one of America’s leading voices in bioethics, Emanuel J. Ezekiel, said that Covid had...
Covid chronicles: an abandoned surrogate baby
International surrogacy has been a big topic during the Covid pandemic. Commissioning parents were stranded on one side of a border and their surrogate and...
Canadians back harsh penalties for unvaxxed
“Canada is to niceness as Saudi Arabia is to oil,” according to the BBC. “It’s awash in the stuff.” (Yes, a BBC journalist really wrote...
Vaccine mandates 2: policies around the world
100% vaccination rates are not even theoretically achievable. But that seems to be the goal of many governments. Here are a few of the tougher...
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:...
How long can you put off seeing the doctor because of lockdowns?
One in five people avoided healthcare during lockdown in the Covid-19 pandemic, often for potentially urgent problems, according to a study PLOS Medicine. During the...
Report from Brazilian senate accuses Bolsonaro of ‘crimes against humanity’ over Covid-19
A 1,200-page report called for about 70 people, including Bolsonaro and his sons, to be indicted on charges ranging from charlatanism to crimes against humanity.
Hand in glove with Covid counterfeiters
Nitrile gloves are the “most dangerous commodity on Earth right now.”
Bioethicist refuses to comply with vaccine mandate
Aaron Kheriaty Not all doctors – or bioethicists -- support vaccine mandates. Internationally, prevalence of Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy in healthcare workers ranges from 4.3 to 72%. The average...
The elderly can still be heroes in the Covid-19 crisis
Two bioethicists argue that victims can offer their bodies for experimentation and organ donation Dirk Bogarde as Sydney Carton goes to the guillotine in A...